Sounds like a Justice that Kamala Harris actually could have voted for......one who rules by emotion, not logic or LAW. And IIRC, a gay couple befriended Kennedy and that’s why he voted the way he did......using his emotional attachment to his friends rather than strictly applying the LAW.
I found and posted this from 2015 back in February when Gorsuch was first nominated:
With three major gay rights opinions to his name already, the 78-year-old Kennedy is the prohibitive favorite to write the Supreme Court decision expected in the next few days that could extend same-sex marriage nationwide. Kennedy’s friendship with Gordon Schaber began in the mid-1960s when Schaber recruited the young lawyer to teach at the McGeorge School of Law in Sacramento. Schaber, who served as the school’s dean for 34 years,