[decal]

Warren Rudman picked David Souter to be his assistant AG. John Sununu made him a state Supreme Court Justice. These alone should have been enough to alert someone that all was not well.

And it's not as though President Bush the Elder would have met with much approval by the denizens of FR had it existed then.

The last 4 judges nominated by Republicans to the SCOTUS from the same circuit as Judge Roberts were Antonin Scalia, Robert Bork, Donald Ginsburg and Clarence Thomas. I would have thought that was pretty good company, myself, but if it's not good enough for you, well...

[Aetius]

Rudman's involvement should have set off alarms to Bush the Elder if he was really intent on naming a conservative to the Court.

Though I loathe ethnic and gender based appointments (O'Connor), Bush I could have named the first Hispanic in Emilio Garza, or another woman in Edith Jones (??? not so sure if I've got the name right for her), but instead continued the sad Republican tradition of getting Sup Court nominations wrong more often than they get them right.