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Sandra Day O'Connor was pretty solid her first year on the court as well, and voted with Rehnquist 87% of the time her first three years on the court. If you asked conservatives to rate her back in '82, with only a few months of decisions to go by, they'd be pretty pleased with her record thus far.

So I stand by exactly what I said. O'Connor turned out to be "socially moderate", specifically pro-abortion, and didn't vote to overturn any of the awful liberal "landmark precedents" of Earl Warren or Warren Burger era courts.

I expect the same of Gorsuch. If votes to override stuff like abortion or homo marriage I'll be pleasantly surprised.

Until then, replacing Scalia with this guy was a big downgrade IMO.