Bush appointed judges squash civil liberties about a third more often then judges appointed by recent Democratic presidents, and are even more repressive than Reagan, Bush 41 and Nixon appointees according to a new study.

…in civil rights and civil liberties cases — abortion, gay rights, freedom of speech, right to privacy, race relations, for example — Bush judges made liberal decisions only 26.5 percent of the time. … That was well below 37.9 percent for appointees of Richard Nixon, 32.3 percent for Ronald Reagan and 32.2 percent for George H.W. Bush, all fellow Republican presidents. … Appointees of Democrats Lyndon Johnson, Jimmy Carter and Bill Clinton gave liberal rulings, respectively, 58.1 percent, 51.3 percent and 42 percent of the time in the same types of cases. …