Do you agree with his definitions there? Absolutely. Being a political conservative means ascribing to certain policy values. As a judicial conservative, it's a philosophy, like you asked me about earlier, and A judicial conservative believes that the courts should be restrained. When they're looking at a law, you interpret it the way the legislature wrote it, and you don't try to change it into some other form. The opposite is judicial activism or being a judicial liberal, where they believe that the court's role is to. Is to change the law into a form that they think is best. (07:45–07:57)
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Asserts that judicial conservatives believe in interpreting laws as written by the legislature without altering them.
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