[rbookward]

I would select judges who try to interpret the Constitution rather than invent it...

I'm probably wrong, but I though judges tried cases, not intepreted the law. (A fine point, but important.)

[HitmanLV]

I'm probably wrong, but I though judges tried cases, not intepreted the law. (A fine point, but important.)

He is referring to appellate judges here, who don't do trials, but rather decide matters of law. Towards that end, they decide what the law says. So yes, judges interpret what the law means.

Judges also make law, which is what hundreds of years of common law is largely about.