well, I'm sure you know the judge who wrote the Pledge of Allegiance decision was a Nixon appointee.
also, according to the USA TODAY
http://www.usatoday.com/news/politic...all-wait_x.htm
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Seventeen of the active 9th Circuit judges were appointed by Democratic presidents. Nine were appointed by Republican presidents. Legal analysts rank five judges as liberal, eight as moderate and 13 as conservative.
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Also, conservative justices tend to follow the party line much closer than liberal justices. So to try to portray this as a problem of liberal/Democratic judges is just wrong.