[daler]

"Remember Harry Blackmun, Sandra Day O'Conner, and David Souter."

And Earl Warren, John Paul Stevens, Anthony Kennedy ...all appointed by Republican presidents.

Has a Democrat president ever appointed a SC justice that they later regretted?

[libertylover]

Has a Democrat president ever appointed a SC justice that they later regretted?

None that I know of.

[scrabblehack]

Had he lived, Kennedy might have regretted Byron White. On the other hand, JFK was more conservative than the Democrats of the ‘70s and ‘80s.