I think it makes perfect sense if you view the courts as largely a political operation, with a thin veneer of legal language on top. Given the past decades of

I think it makes perfect sense if you view the courts as largely a political operation, with a thin veneer of legal language on top. Given the past decades of highly coordinated--and completely politically motivated--court-stacking, it's probably most accurate to put the political definitions ahead of the legal definitions of conservative.