It IS a good job! Discovering that it was the decision of a Carter appointee PROVES it cannot be correct! Ergo, the opposite is assured to be true.
See my post 18. In addition to the Carter appointee, the other judges in the cases were appointed by Presidents Reagan, Eisenhower, and Nixon.
I've seldom seen such a clear-cut example of the ad hominem fallacy. Readers take note: this is what the term really refers to, not just insults.