Why did President Reagan and President Bush appoint conservative justices to the Supreme Court?

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They wanted rulings that met with their conservative thinking.

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Presidents tend to nominate people who share their political ideology, although they sometimes accidentally err in the other direction. Former President George H. W. Bush appointed recently retired Justice David Souter, whom he thought had a conservative viewpoint, but who voted with the liberals most of the time.

President Eisenhower, a Republican, nominated Chief Justice Earl Warren and William J. Brennan, both of whom turned out to be influential liberals. When asked if he'd made any mistakes in office, Eisenhower allegedly retorted, "Just two, and they're on the Supreme Court."