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Originally Posted by Rupert Pupkin
Considering that people usually get more conservative when they get older, it's amazing that we keep getting judges on the Supreme Court that turn into liberals as they get older. It happened with Souter, Stevens, and Warren.
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warren was just an example of bad vetting by eisehower. his supreme court record was in line with almost everything else in his prior political career. republicans weren't always uniformly intolerant lock step christian soldiers. there used to be room for all kinds in the g.o.p.
ancient history now.
i'm surprised kennedy wasn't mentioned in your list. he was a real surprise. even to me. i guess travel really does broaden perspective.