Two Bush appointees have already moved the Supreme Court in a markedly more conservative direction. Chief Justice Roberts won 22 Democratic confirmation votes, not only with his obvious legal credentials but his bland assurances that he saw the job of a justice as akin to that of a baseball umpire -- enforcing the rules, not rewriting the rulebook.
There is a long list of significant decisions on which Roberts and Alito have led or joined a 5-4 majority, overruling precedent and narrowing individual rights. So, the Republicans complaining about activism with Sotomayor is just another lie filled with hypocrisy.
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