[AnotherUnixGeek]

This week, ten new nominees were announced to take their seats—as promised, mostly conservative firebrands picked by the Heritage Foundation and Federalist Society

Hopefully these judges will be unabashed judicial activists for conservative positions. I know it's not the way the judiciary is supposed to work, but conservatives are fighting an asymmetrical war - liberals openly nominate and promote liberal activists to the bench who manufacture their own laws, while conservatives look for strict constructionists who simply try to maintain the status quo. The courts have become a sort of shadow legislature for the Democrats - this is the way the game is being played, and conservatives can either acknowledge it and appoint champions for their causes or else sit back and watch liberal courts take away every legislative and executive victory.

[PapaBear3625]

liberals openly nominate and promote liberal activists to the bench who manufacture their own laws, while conservatives look for strict constructionists who simply try to maintain the status quo

A REAL strict constructionist would rule that most of the current federal government is unconstitutional, and have no constitutionally-granted authority to do most of what the feds are doing.

[RummyChick]

Does anyone know if those picks were done under Jim Demint. Seems likely.

[DoughtyOne]

The beauty of our position is that you don’t have to be an activist. You just have to stick to the law.

An activist judge is a rogue judge, and should be removed from the bench.

[zeugma]

Hopefully these judges will be unabashed judicial activists for conservative positions.

There lies the biggest problem we have on he judicial front. Conservative judges tend not to be activists. They attempt to interpret law in accordance to the Constitution and precedent. Leftist judges will declare the "law" to be whatever it is that they want it to be.

- liberals openly nominate and promote liberal activists to the bench who manufacture their own laws, while conservatives look for strict constructionists who simply try to maintain the status quo.

Yup. Sadly, there is no solution that is in line with Constitutional principles. If we appoint 'activist' conservatives, THe legal system will become even more of a joke and travesty than it already is.