The Federalist Society gets too much hate, IMO, but the problem is that the ones most recommended by that group are all very similar - highly qualified and conservative on paper, but also heavily influenced by swamp-related factors such as having all attended the same few elite law schools, being a part of the same cocktail circles as the left, etc. Most of their lower court judges will turn out to be relatively solid because those judges don’t get much attention, but when it comes to the pressure of the Supreme Court, it’s a whole different ballgame. It takes thick skin not to go wobbly when the Left, the MSM, your old college friends, etc. are attacking you. And both you AND your spouse better be prepared to be ostracized from your social circles should you stick to doing what you know is right.
So, all that makes people question sticking just to Fed Soc types and wonder whether it might be better just to pick hardcore conservative ideologues that come from different legal backgrounds.
Supreme Court Justices don’t even need to be lawyers -do they?