Maybe you consider it semantics, but in the last 50 years the court has been too far to the left. This court is more balanced I guess you can say.

Compared to some of the decisions in the past 50 years, it's not very hard for any court to be considered conservative. Especially by modern legal circles like the ABA which tacks leftward.

We'll see exactly how "conservative" this court is with some of the cases on the docket this year. The Heller case should be interesting.

I find it interesting that the Bush administration is in favor of the DC handgun ban, yet in a rare case, Dick Cheney the VP filed a brief with some Senators taking the side of the circuit court in overturning the DC ban. Cheney is going against Bush and the administration (Justice Dept).