We know he's a conservative, so we can rule that out as a point of criticism since we knew what we were getting. He is probably the least conservative of the Republican nominees and routinely can't be relied on to give them favorable rulings in their most important cases - Obamacare being the most, but also on abortion and has likewise sided with conservatives on a lot of things. He's basically the new Kennedy and only people on either political fringes seem to have a problem with him. To most normal people, he's a standard milk toast Republican nominee who generally votes with the conservatives and occasionally with the libs.I've already done that and they weren't disappointed at all. It's only a handful of activists that don't grasp legal theory that are unhappy. Read that article and you'll see why. You can't just make statements like 'most republicans" without backing that up, since its just not true that most Republicans are unhappy with him.
And for the record, as Berba illustrated that measure of whether someone is doing a good, that would mean Hitler was doing a bang-up job. To claim he is "doing fairly decent" simply because some people on both sides are not happy rather than what he is actually doing with legal rulings is an absurd standard to judge a justice, especially a Chief Justice. And if your barometer for decent job is "not Scalia" then you have an extremely low bar.
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As you see above - He's nearly as close to Kagan and Breyer as he is the nearest conservative on the Judicial Common Space rating of SCOTUS ideological decisions.
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