[sittnick]

Yep. At least Ford did no harm like the doctor's creed.

I wouldn't go that far. He DID give us John Paul Stevens. Thankfully, Carter had no SCOTUS picks.

[plain talk]

Ford did not forsee what he would turn into. At the time Ford picked him he was known as a moderate conservative. In his early days as a SC justice Stephens voted to bring back capital punishment and voted against affirmative action. It's later he turned to the dark liberal side. It turned out with hindsight to have been a bad pick, yes.