It was the sort of gratuitous advisory opinion that judicial conservatives have long condemned.

HOW will President Bush choose among a dizzying variety of judicial conservatives?

The 12-member court will have six members generally regarded as judicial conservatives and four liberals.

Now even a judicial conservative can get flayed.

Sunstein's book, despite its title, has been perceived as an attack on both judicial conservatives and liberal activists.

Judge Owen was touted as a judicial conservative who would, in the words of President Bush, "interpret the law, not legislate from the bench."

Lawyers here call Judge Sauls a judicial conservative who is loath to stray from the letter of the law.

From the outset, Epstein's ideas ran into resistance from traditional judicial conservatives.

The potential outside nominees are all judicial conservatives of strong, if varying, degrees.

The Warren Court's broad interpretation of the Federal courts' habeas corpus jurisdiction had never been popular with judicial conservatives and state officials.