[Designer]

"I don’t suggest it is a great thing that Presidents made mistakes in the past regarding Justices, but they have."

You call it "making mistakes", when Republican Presidents appoint liberals to the court.

I call it ignoring the will of the people who elected them.

[A CA Guy]

There are always people who will be on either side of nominees, but are you saying with past Justices the Republican Presidents knew a candidate was a clunker and still nominated them?

I don’t believe that.
I think it is more difficult, that staff didn’t do a good job of filtering or no one asked specific questions because Senators would say the Republican President gave a litmus test and that Democrats should go against Judges the same way.