Stevens was nominated by Nixon.
Pragmatism has it's limitations Chunga. I agree with you for the most part but there comes a time....always does ...or else we would still have exactly the same parties we started with many years ago....and in reality, they have morphed and changed twice.
Whigs?
Ford's advisors were impressed with his writing, and thought he was sound on criminal law cases. Ford himself of course didn't have a clue. It didn't work out. Breyer and Souter are somewhat interesting to read, Stevens and Ginsberg are not. Not that I am a SCOTUS junkie. It is just my impression.
But Stevens isn't all bad. He's a bridge player. This poker craze is so infra dig.