We nominated most of the supreme court justices in the last 28 years. Reagan gave us Alito but also Connor and Kennedy. Bush Senior gave us Souter the turd (helped in no small part by outgoing senator John Sununu’s father who was his chief-of-staff)and Thomas. Bush gave us Roberts and Alito (almost Meyers).
Before that, Ford gave us the turd of John Paul Stevens, and Nixon appointed Blackmun, Powell, Rhenquist, and Burgher (only one of which was actually a conservative).
Most of our guys have batted .500 at best (Bush only batted 1.000 because we forced his hand on Meyers). We should not be defending a one-seat majority on the supreme court, we should be defending a 3-seat majority. It’s disgusting to think of our court swinging to the left if one of our venerable conservative justices were to fall ill after spending so much energy to nominate justices who will actually apply the constitution as written.
ummmmm, it was President Bush (43) who gave us Alito. Reagan nominated Scalia. (all those Italian names sound the same)