“It boggles the mind that folks like him and Kavanaugh can be considered “conservative!” Those Justices that President Trump nominated were at or near the Top of the List of The Heritage Foundations List of Conservative judges. What Heritages methodology is for listing Conservative judges I do not know.
I think they all had a decent track record. However, threats, pressure, and money have all tainted the Trump justices.
I believe it was the Federalist Society, not Heritage. Their list was supposed to be the best of the bunch, which says a lot about the future of jurisprudence in America.
” Those Justices that President Trump nominated were at or near the Top of the List of The Heritage Foundations List of Conservative judges. What Heritages methodology is for listing Conservative judges I do not know.”
All of the Supreme Court justices are educated at elite private schools, almost all at Ivy League Schools. The curriculum at these law schools is biased towards the concept of the “living Constitution” which can always be interpreted by the omnipotent courts to reflect current progressive thinking pertaining to law and society. Scalia believed in orginal intent - the courts were to rule based on the meaning of the statute or Constitutional amendment at the time it was adopted. Those who favor original intent assume if the meaning needs to be changed to reflect modernity, there is an amendment process in the Constitution which allows the people, the states, and Congress to adopt through the legislative process changes to the Constitution or laws.
Part of the problem with Supreme Court is limiting the selection of jurists to a few schools which do not teach original intent. If this nation is so hell bent on diversity, how about some diversity of doctrine, as well as educational environment on the court? When you appoint elitists to an elite institution you will get groupthink.