Kavanaugh is well-known in D.C. legal circles. There’s wide agreement among the people I know who know him that, in terms of judicial philosophy and temperament, he falls somewhere between Chief Justice Roberts and the late Justice Scalia. Some say he’s closer to Roberts. Others say he’s closer to Scalia.
So we got a collegial guy, a Yaley, a "people I know" kind of man, a friend of Kagan and the Bushes, and one that can't be described as close to either Scalia nor to Roberts.
We could have just kept Kennedy.
Republicans always do this. They punt. They have no fight in them. Barrett was the pro lifer his base wanted but he was talked out of it by the
establishment. If you have to fight, fight for the one you want. Kavanaugh’s long ties to Bush might sink him. Trump could have done so much better.
I could care less what democrats say about him, it’s his own opinions he wrote. He’s not a committed pro lifer and defender of religious liberty. He was educated by liberal Jesuits. Terrible pick.