"When two [people] come into [the Supreme] Court, one may say: "An act of Congress means this." The other may say it means the opposite. We [the Court] then say it means one of the two or something else in between." -- Earl Warren, chief justice of the Supreme Court the function of the Supreme Court that Chief Justice Warren described in the quote above is called A judicial restraint. B advise and consent. C judicial review. D judicial activism.