When Presidents Reagan and George H. W. Bush had appointed almost 75% of all federal judges by 1993, it meant that the federal courts were which of the following?

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When a President appoints judges, they tend to choose individuals with similar ideologies to their own. Reagan and Bush were both Republicans with conservative ideologies, so it is likely that the judges they appointed were also conservative. Therefore, the correct answer is D - the federal courts were more conservative.