If you listen to Mark Levin, who vetted Souter for Bush, you will see that Souter lied completely and totally deceived the conservative team created to ensure we get a constitutional originalist.
If you listen to Mark Levin, who vetted Souter for Bush, you will see that Souter lied completely and totally deceived the conservative team created to ensure we get a constitutional originalist.
The problem is that Republican presidents often wanted stealth candidates. Even if stealth candidates are the only way to overcome the Senates opposition, it is necessary to choose a candidate whose judicial philosophy is known to someone we can trust.
Sometimes it was known even before the confirmation that the candidate isnt an originalist. John Roberts was said to be a minimalist, not an originalist. After John Roberts was nominated, I read in an online forum a sigh of relief by someone who presented himself as a liberal. He was nominated anyway.
It makes me wonder whether previous Republican administrations really wanted the Supreme Court with an originalist majority. The moderately-conservative Supreme Court, yes, but the originalist Supreme Court, no.