Picking Justices is like picking from a Chocolate Sampler. Using “Kelo v. City of New London”, as an example because it is in my ping file.
https://www.law.cornell.edu/supct/html/04-108.ZS.html
268 Conn. 1, 843 A. 2d 500, affirmed.
Stevens, J., delivered the opinion of the Court, in which Kennedy, Souter, Ginsburg, and Breyer, JJ., joined. Kennedy, J., filed a concurring opinion. O’Connor, J., filed a dissenting opinion, in which Rehnquist, C. J., and Scalia and Thomas, JJ., joined. Thomas, J., filed a dissenting opinion.
Kennedy: President Reagan nominated him as an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court, and he took his seat February 18, 1988.
Souter: President Bush nominated him as an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court, and he took his seat October 9, 1990.
Stevens: President Ford nominated him as an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court, and he took his seat December 19, 1975.
All three of these Republican Presidents were “pro-life”. Donald Trump has already said he is going to defund Planned Parenthood. Part of the Art of the Deal is “Deliver the Goods”
“You can create excitement, you can do wonderful promotion and get all kinds of press, and you can throw in a little hyperbole. But if you don’t deliver the goods, people will eventually catch on.”
I agree that well-meaning presidents don’t always know.
However, if they don’t even TRY, I’m sure you will agree, it will be much worse.