As did Nixon (e.g., Warren Burger, Harry Blackmun), Gerald Ford (e.g., John Paul Stevens) and Ronaldus Magnus (e.g., Sandra Day O'Connor, Anthony Kennedy).
Re GOP appointed judges gone bad:
It’s been remarked that judges often drift progressive, but rarely drift conservative.
I think it’s something about the power of the office, and the egotistic seductiveness of being the interpreter of the law. I don’t know how that tendency can be changed.