 When your case gets to the Supreme Court, then there are nine justices, each appointed by a president over the past 25 years anyway. They are labelled as being liberal or conservative because they have been appointed by presidents. Why is that dynamic so important when we talk about the balance of power on the bench? Conservatives really believe on this Supreme Court that you need to look at the original public meaning of the Constitution at the time, that judges can't go in and expand