Your miserable fact of the day:
The last time a Democratic president got to fill the seat of a departing conservative Supreme Court justice was in 1962.
(it was Byron White)
Ahh yess, Whizzer White, everyone’s favorite football justice and anti-abortion extremist whose hate for teh gay was only matched by Antonin Scalia and Sam Alito. My old boss Mark Udall once had to walk back a claim that Whizzer White (D-Colo) was his favorite SCOTUS justice.
Of course the problem was that then-Rep. Udall knew little about the Supreme Court and figured a Democrat from his state would automatically be praiseworthy in his US Senate primary versus my high school history teacher who knew better. Oops.
