Since his nomination by President Trump in July, both supporters and opponents of Judge Brett Kavanaugh have largely agreed that he’s likely to push the Supreme Court to the right.
It’s worth remembering that Justice Anthony Kennedy, whose seat Kavanaugh would fill, sided with the court’s conservatives far more often than not. So on plenty issues, replacing Kennedy with Kavanaugh likely won’t dramatically shift the court’s jurisprudence.
Still, a close look at the records of both men reveals certain areas — several of them core issues of democracy and the rule of law, as well as reducing gun violence and preserving access to abortion — where the change is likely to have important, even in some cases transformative, effects. The result, if Kavanaugh is confirmed, could well be a court that makes it easier to get a gun and harder to get an abortion, that aids Trump’s efforts to stonewall the Mueller investigation, and that further exacerbates the influence of big money and partisan manipulation in our elections.
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