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To: Ron in Acreage

When was the last time a judge got *more* conservative after being appointed to a lifetime post?

Once he's on the court, there's no amount of arm-twisting W or anybody else can do.


165 posted on 07/10/2005 7:59:47 PM PDT by highball ("I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have." -- Thomas Jefferson)
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To: highball

Byron "Whizzer" White, appointed by JFK, was the last justice to move rightward after joining the court. He was one of the two dissenters in Roe, along with Rehnquist.


199 posted on 07/10/2005 9:16:32 PM PDT by Luke21
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