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Originally Posted by GGG
Bush put Alito on the court so he has 1 of the votes and Roberts also concurred that he was willing to uphold the Mississippi law of no abortions past 15 weeks and essentially said he was unsure on the broader issue. So the Bush appointees have had a strong hand in limiting rights of individuals. Roberts had embraced his role as swing justice when it was 5/4 so I think he was a reasonable appointee but Thomas(Bush 1) and Alito are certainly worse than Gorsuch and Kavanaugh.
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I guess my point is I don't think the rot began on 9/11. I think it began with the death of FDR and the dropping of the bombs on Japan.
Bush/Cheney did a ton of damage. But they were the continuation of the rot, not the beginning of it.