The chief justice for 33 years has been the personification of the value of judicial restraint, and that is something that the president is equally committed to. I'm certain the president will abide by those beliefs as he looks for a nominee to replace him.

I come away with a very strong impression that Roberts will be a much more classical judicial restraint justice than any of the current justices. He betrays no real policy agenda.

the most prominent and intellectually powerful advocate of judicial restraint.

Roberts is much more inclined toward a posture of judicial restraint than she [O'Connor] was--judicial restraint being not having courts being the first place people look to solve social problems. They should look to the legislatures.

Judicial restraint is a buzzword just like activist judge. Everybody's in favor of judicial restraint, but what does it mean? If it means not acting as a check against majoritarian excesses or upholding constitutional rights against improper government action, then restraint is not something admirable.

If judicial review means anything, it is that judicial restraint does not allow everything.