[moose2004]

Wasn't Anthony Kennedy Reagan's third nominee for one seat? Honestly I don't remember (I know he was at least the second nominee for that seat), either way it didn't weaken Reagan.

[Semper Paratus]

Wasn't Anthony Kennedy Reagan's third nominee for one seat? Honestly I don't remember (I know he was at least the second nominee for that seat), either way it didn't weaken Reagan.

That pick didn't work out too well.

[Map Kernow]

Wasn't Anthony Kennedy Reagan's third nominee for one seat? Honestly I don't remember (I know he was at least the second nominee for that seat), either way it didn't weaken Reagan.

Of course it didn't! And even after the Bork fiasco, the GOP lost just one seat in the Senate in '88 (they had already lost the Senate in '86 for reasons that had nothing to do with SCOTUS), and got Bush 41 elected POTUS.

[stop_fascism]

Yes, after Bork and Ginsburg.

[rcrngroup]

Wasn't Anthony Kennedy Reagan's third nominee for one seat? Honestly I don't remember (I know he was at least the second nominee for that seat), either way it didn't weaken Reagan.

Well, it weakened Reagan in the sense that we ended up with Anthony Kennedy on the SC vs the two prior nominees who would have been more conservative (was it Carswell and Bork?). So given that outcome, the SC has definitely been weakened by Anthony Kennedy professing his admiration for using foreign law and his votes in passing liberal activist rulings.

I believe that either of his two prior nominees would have been constitutional advocates vs swing vote moderate-liberal Anthony Kennedy! Another win for the left-wing and loss for the conservatives.

[NeoCaveman]

Wasn't Anthony Kennedy Reagan's third nominee for one seat?

First Bork got borked. Then Doug Ginsberg was withdrawn for past pot smoking with his students. Then Anthony Kennedy was third.