It's sickening how often we don't. Stevens, Souter, ROberts might be better, but only slightly, the jury is still out on Gorsuch...
“It’s sickening how often we don’t. Stevens, Souter, ROberts might be better, but only slightly, the jury is still out on Gorsuch...
Also Harry Blackmun (Nixon appointee) who gave us Roe v. Wade. Earl Warren, the leftist Chief Justice, was an Eisenhower appointee. Sandra Day O’Conner (Reagan appointee) also leaned left from time to time.
Many justices are appointed as conservatives and “evolve” to the left on the court. No left wing appointees evolve into strict constructionists Constitution loving jurists.
It would be to the nation’s benefit if Trump does not appoint an Ivy League law school grad to the Supreme Court. Those schools teach the “living” Constitution.