https://www.washingtonpost.com/opini...=.49a95143cbdf
when Nixon appointed 4 conservative justices of the "strict constructionist" thinking, the Warren court on a fast liberal track got derailed.
Before President Richard Nixon’s four conservative appointments abruptly tilted the court to the right, the country was in the middle of a social revolution, or what we now call the Sixties. Relations of race, gender and, less obviously, class were mutating at warp speed. The federal courts, and the Supreme Court in particular, were at the heart of the transformations.
the article was written in 2016. Libs were chomping on the bit to give Obama a 3rd justice which of course never happened. They were looking to end 43 years of conservative dominance in the courts.
they are still upset over the Garland non-appointment.