[org.whodat]

LOL, and for proof of that just look at the tower of a conservative judge appointed by Mr. Reagan and not to mention that tower of a conservative judge appoint by bush senior.

Supreme court judges are a crap shoot no matter who appoints them.

[AmericanExceptionalist]

LOL, and for proof of that just look at the tower of a conservative judge appointed by Mr. Reagan and not to mention that tower of a conservative judge appoint by bush senior.

Supreme court judges are a crap shoot no matter who appoints them.

I think a more accurate assessment would be this: Center-right judges, upon appointment to the High Court, tend to get caught up in the leftist expectations of Washington culture. As a result, they gradually become center-left justices (think: Sandra Day O'Conner) or unabashedly liberal justices (think: Earl Warren, William Brennan, and David Souter).

Consistently conservative thinkers, however, such as Clarence Thomas and Antonin Scalia, generally remain impervious to this pressure. They stay conservative.

Progressive thinkers, by contrast--the "Living Constitution" types--tend to become even more unapologetically liberal over time, as the Washington culture gives them permission to do so. Indeed, it encourages this "growth."

So I would rather have a Republican president who will probably, at worst, nominate center-right judges who turn into center-left apostates, rather than a Democratic president who will appoint unreconstructed leftists who will only gravitate further to the left.

[County Agent Hank Kimball]

"Supreme court judges are a crap shoot no matter who appoints them."

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They don't seem to be such a crap shoot for Democrat presidents.

Can you name a Democrat-appointed justice that has turned out conservative?

I'll hang up and listen to my answer.

Hank