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Originally Posted by The_Jazz
You're kidding, right? It's not the same thing. Some justices tend to vote more liberally. Others more conservatively. Occassionally they all agree. There's absolutely no implication of parties there. Several of the most ideologically conservative justices were appointed by Democrats and vice versa.
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I'll double check.
- John Roberts: Republican, nominated and confirmed by Republicans
- John Paul Stevens: Democrat, but Republican when nominated and confirmed by Republicans (call it the Stevens "gotcha")
- Antonin Scalia: Republican, nominated and confirmed by Republicans
- Anthony Kennedy: Centrist, nominated and confirmed by Republicans
- David Souter: Democract, but Republican/Centrist when nominated by Republican president George Bush 1, and confirmed by Democratic Congress
- Clarence Thomas: Republican, nominated by Republican president George Bush 1, and confirmed by Democratic Congress.
- Ruth Bader Ginsburg: Democrat, nominated and confirmed by Democrats
- Stephen Breyer: Democrat, nominated and confirmed by Democrats
- Samuel Alito: Republican, nominated and confirmed by Republcians
Huh. It seems to me that outside of a Democratic Senate choosing Thomas (who happens to be black), they were all choosing people with the same ideological agenda as they had. That's interesting.