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Originally Posted by Tyrone Slothrop
A lot of conservatives were pissed off that Souter didn't give them the kind of rulings they wanted, and the lesson they took was that they needed to exert pressure on the nomination process to make sure they got the kind of judge they wanted. When another Bush tried to nominate another Souter, W. and Harriet Miers, conservatives revolted and prevented that from happening, and got Alito instead, and we all can see how that turned out.
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I think they also really got into grooming their candidates through the FedSoc. Most Supreme Court justices from the right have been getting talked up in a small circle of right wing DC insiders for years; the FedSoc can name their best candidates for the next decade or two. This just doesn't happen on the left. I think we have some idea of where our bench is, but no one is consciously grooming them for the big show.
A candidate carefully groomed over many years is much less likely to succomb to things like reasoning and so much less likely to evolve.
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