The outcome of the election may change this quite a bit

Yes, President George Bush has made a big impact on the Supreme Court of the United States.

Now, as Bush enters the last months of his presidency, he has come close to accomplishing his goal. He is likely to end up with fewer total judicial appointments than this two-term predecessors, Reagan (1981-89) and Bill Clinton (1993-2001). Yet Bush has appointed conservatives to lifetime posts with the potential to affect the law in America for decades.

“I think that what he has done on judges is his major triumph,” says political science professor Sheldon Goldman at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, who has been tracking judges since the 1960s. “In almost every other area, domestic policy and foreign policy, there have been failures. But with judges, it’s a major success story.”

But look at the evidence of how hard the Democrats are still fighting his appointments, which is evidence of how they would try to stack the courts if a Democratic president and a Democratic Congress held the power.