Agree about not liking Bush and not true. As I remember it gave Bush the opportunity to select a young conservative to be the Chief Justice for a long time.
Unfortunately, most selectees lose their perspective once they get to the SCOTUS, as seen with Trump’s selectees.
“the opportunity to select a young conservative to be the Chief Justice for a long time.”
A poorly thought out and even more poorly executed strategy.
A sure conservative chief justice for ten or fifteen years would have been far better than the potential young “conservative” for thirty years given the history and habit of judges to “grow” in office.
That's completely false. Kavanaugh and Gorsuch are exactly where their track record suggested they'd be. If anything, they are a little to the right of where expected.
Gorsuch and Kavanaugh were proteges of Anthony Kennedy, who was rated a little left of center. Amd logically, they'd be a little left of that.
Gorsuch was on the court for over a year with Kennedy, and during that time he was significantly to the left of Kennedy.
Bottom line is that Gorsuch and Kennedy haven't changed at all. They are exactly as expected.