The reason why conservatives fear judges moving to the left. Is that we have seen many liberal judges legislate from the bench. Meaning re-writing existing laws in order to effect their own personal opinion, & not the law. We don't want that. Nor should democrats. We saw this happen in the Florida Supreme court in the election year of 2000. This court was actually re-writing election law. That is why the U.S. supreme court had to step in & stop them. As we see they could have in effect, turned the outcome of a Presidential election. As we have learned Al Gore never won the count for the state of Florida. Those votes have been counted at least 5 times & he has never won a count. Other judges have imposed other critical things to this nation. We need judges who will follow the law, not write the law. And this is what conservatives fear.