There are liberals who want the courts — not least SCOTUS — to pass laws, implement policies and create rights difficult to enact through the democratic/legislative process.

There are conservatives who want the courts to do the same thing – or at to least roll back the policies, laws and rights created by past activist courts.

There also are conservatives who simply want the court to be what it was intended to be: not a law-making body, not a policy-making body, not a political body but rather the branch of government that interprets and enforces the Constitution, the fundamental contract between the government and the governed in America.

Are there any liberals at all who take this principled and non-partisan position? Any liberal originalists and/or strict constructionists?

BTW, Kath, I heard Mitt Romney on Laura Ingraham’s show this morning and I thought he was very impressive. (The tie between this and the above is that Romney weighed in on Bob Bork’s comments re the Miers’ controversy – supporting Bork’s position which is, among other things, that once you allow the courts to be politicized you inevitably end up with political battles – and bloody battles — over confirmations.)