[lasereye]

A couple of things are becoming apparent:

1) You have no idea how anybody really votes on the Supreme Court and don't really follow SC decisions.

2) You simply can't get it through your skull that the Senate has been controlled by Democrats when most of the appointments have been made, which was my original point at the beginning of the whole discussion. And no, I do not think simply having one appointee after another shot down for their entire Presidency is an intelligent option. It's brainless.

The large number of 5-4 SC decisions in recent years should clue you in that there must be one group of 4 or 5 justices who usually vote conservative, and another group of 4 or 5 that usually votes liberal. In fact Rehnquist has been one of the most conservative justices. Here's a rating of justices' liberalism that I found on a website: Supreme Court Justices Liberalism in Civil Liberties and Economics Cases 1937-1994

JUSTICE	Civil Liberties	Economics
Rehnquist a	19.3	42.2
Stevens	62.8	58.7
O’Connor	34.6	42.7
Rehnquist b	23.1	46.5
Scalia	29.7	44.1
Kennedy	36.5	45.4
Souter	54.0	53.8
Thomas	27.0	36.5
Ginsburg	61.4	59.0
Breyer	63.4	42.9

aRehnquist Votes as Nixon Appointee
bRehnquist Votes as Reagan Appointee

I assume the Civil Liberties category includes the Boy Scouts case, and the gun control decision next month would also fall under that category.

[seanc623]

In fact Rehnquist has been one of the most conservative justices.

Let's see; he voted with the left-wingers on economics almost half the time and on civil liberties almost 1 in every 5 times. 50% and 20% are not acceptable to me for a so-called conservative.

[seanc623]

A couple of things are becoming apparent: 1) You have no idea how anybody really votes on the Supreme Court and don't really follow SC decisions.

Wrong again; you haven't disproved anything I've said about Scalia, Thomas or any of the others and these ratings only prove what I've been saying all along. In fact I have less respect now for Scalia and Thomas after seeing this.