To be or not to be

George Will asks the appropriate question "what is conservative about conservatives' complaints about the court's decision?" concerning the recent Oregon case regarding assisted-suicide.

Since the 2000 election, it's obvious that even judicial conservatives will usurp federalism to advance their own judicial activist tendencies, despite the mythology of liberal activist judges. For example, to 1. defend ideology(Oregon) or 2. elect their candidate (Bush v. Gore). Cynical translation: even Supreme Court justices can be hypocrites when it suits them. That's what makes Alito's appointment so scary.