You HOPE it’ll be an improvement. There is a long tradition of Supremes who turned into the opposite of what a Republican president thought they would be.
One of the most important considerations is whether the presumptive Justice plans to hobnob with the Georgetown cocktail party set.
If so, they will eventually bend to the desires of their leftist hosts.
cf Clarence Thomas, who instead reads Catholic theologians from the Middle Ages, and drives his own bus to Nebraska football games.
I disagree, I believe most of the turncoat judges turned out to be EXACTLY what the RINO’s who appointed them wanted them to be (with a few exceptions like Reagan’s appointment of Kennedy)
“You HOPE it’ll be an improvement. There is a long tradition of Supremes who turned into the opposite of what a Republican president thought they would be.”
I wonder how much of that is due to republicans, even Reagan, appointing judges they considered the easiest to get confirmed?
We ended up with Kennedy because of the rejection of judge Bork.
Partisanship has been fierce since Watergate and has only gotten worse.
Add to that, many viable and able candidates may quietly take themselves out of contention because of the treatment of Robert Bork and Clarence Thomas.
When you go with mediocrity just to get a judge confirmed you get a mediocre justice.
Thank all mighty God for President Trump.