We shouldn’t forget, Bush I and his Souter anti-property rights pick. Must be genetic.
I think it is much more cynical than that. Politics is about making trades, and the Bushes have been too willing to trade the judiciary for things that THEY believe are important. After all, as they are wealthy and can afford the best and most connected attorneys around, so the efficient administration of justice does not affect them. Well, I think that the issues of justice here for the average person and observation of civil rights here for the average person will turn out to have been far more consequential in the long view of Bushes presidency that is atrociously conducted war in Iraq until they got all the neo-con Harriet Miers lookalikes out of positions of influence and got a real counterinsurgency strategy under Petraeus. That was not a deliberate strategy of this administration, but a last act of desperation, sadly.
It is what happens when you have someone who operates on the principal of convenience rather than conviction, heads to Clinton's tails (pun intended).