FIXING REAGAN'S LIBERAL LEGACY:

Bush appointees signal court's new direction (Joan Biskupic, 12/20/06, USA TODAY)

They are President Bush's appointees to the Supreme Court, the products of the administration's efforts to make the court more conservative.

And although most of the major decisions in their first full term together won't be announced for months, Chief Justice John Roberts and Justice Samuel Alito have signaled a readiness to move the court to the right.

In recent cases involving abortion, global warming and school integration, Roberts and Alito have been aggressive and sometimes feisty proponents of conservative views and particularly sympathetic to arguments by the Bush administration.

Their tactics have added flair to the court's public sessions and have contrasted sharply with the tentative approach that moderate Justices Sandra Day O'Connor and Anthony Kennedy often took in disputes over abortion, affirmative action and other key issues.

W is who the Right thinks Reagan was.

Posted by Orrin Judd at December 20, 2006 1:18 PM