The Bush Judicial Legacy, by the Numbers

The new issue of Judicature offers the most comprehensive empirical look yet at former President George W. Bush's judicial legacy. Through 59 confirmed appointments to appeals courts, 261 to district courts and two to the Supreme Court, the Bush administration "definitely achieved" a goal of moving the federal bench to the right, says one editor. Tallying 2,680 decisions by Bush-appointed district court judges, a political scientist concludes "the Bush team is on the whole the most conservative on record."