Willard appointed horrible leftists to the bench in Massachusetts. One of whom released a deranged lunatic who went and promptly brutally slaughtered a young couple, Brian and Beverly Mauck. When told of his handiwork, Willard was more indignant that it might make him look bad rather than expressing concern about the murdered couple (during his farce of a Presidential campaign in 2007).
BTW, he met with said judicial applicant for all of a few minutes (which close scrutiny of her record would’ve stopped her appointment), Willard had more pressing business to tend to. What was that ? He had a lunch reservation at Ruth’s Chris Steakhouse.
YOu’re not wrong about Romney’s judicial appointments, but have you read the constitution of that state? It lets a (leftist, in modern times) council approve all judicial appointments. Sure, ideally Romney would have nominated only conservatives; that’s what I hope I would have done. But a conservative might also have chosen, rationally, to have nominated “slightly less liberal” judges. I can at least nod my head to that approach, even if I don’t agree.