If you're president, it's often your court appointments that seal your legacy with a capital L.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Conservative voters increasingly understand that the one legacy a president can leave is his judicial appointments.
When you're out of office, you can be a statesman.
There's a certain clubbiness to the idea that you're an ex-president. You're no longer a politician. You're a statesman.
Presidential legacies are valuable things, too valuable to be left up to historians.
I'm an appointee of President Obama.
A wise governor told me a long time ago, political capital you don't get more of by keeping it. You get it by using it.
That's a really strange, unique position to be in - royalty is where you have no choice over what your duties are.
One day after laying a wreath at the tomb of Martin Luther King Jr., President Bush appoints a federal judge who has built his career around dismantling Dr. King's legacy.
But, I know enough people in that court, through the years, to know one thing: There's always somebody who surprises you, who rises above what they thought they appointed him for, and stays with the separation of powers, and with the right of the law to decide.
Once your name becomes well known, politicians come courting.
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