Brett Kavanaugh Wants You to Know It’s Not About Abortion

At the risk of sounding like Susan Collins, I am very disappointed with Brett Kavanaugh.

Though I never bought his assurances that he wouldn’t mess with Roe v. Wade as the senator from Maine apparently did (remember when Collins gave a 45-minute speech before the Senate, extolling Kavanaugh’s respect for precedent?), I didn’t think he would take a scorched-earth approach to ending abortion rights, either. I thought he’d chip away at it, as Chief Justice John Roberts had advocated.

Serves me right for being hopeful that Kavanaugh wouldn’t be a total partisan hack.

What really bothers me is not that ...