[AnotherUnixGeek]

The imminent confirmation of Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh will likely mean the dawn of a conservative high court for decades to come.

Yeah...I hope so. But I've heard this before, when David Souter was confirmed, and we all know how that turned out. There's always a tendency for presidents to pick establishment Republican moderates for the SC, and establishment Republican moderates have a strong dog-like instinct to please liberals which overwhelms any conservative principles. Thus, we've had disappointment after disappointment - in my lifetime Sandra Day O'Connor, Anthony Kennedy, Souter. And of course John Roberts, the Chief Justice, who was pivotal in preserving Obamacare, contorting logic into interesting pretzel shapes to justify his decision.

Hopefully Kavanaugh will repay Trump's nomination and solid backing by proving to be as solid a conservative voice on the court as Clarence Thomas and Sam Alito have been. Meanwhile, I expect John Roberts to move into the all-important wishy-washy moderate swing-vote position formerly occupied by Kennedy.

[Teacher317]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ideological_leanings_of_United_States_Supreme_Court_justices

Centrists would be between 0.5 and -0.5...

Notice that the Court has not had more Conservative than Liberal Justices since 1953.

And this is made even more stark by the obvious fact that the graph is clearly off-set upwards more than a little. Ginsburg was originally a Centrist? Roberts is more Conservative than any of the 3 female Justices are Liberal? ROFL