Opinion of Brett Kavanaugh

[MarkD]

To me he's just another one of the Supreme Court mediocrities. He's not going to be remembered as one of the Supreme Court greats like Joseph Story, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Benjamin Cardozo, or Hugo Black. A mediocrity gets some decisions right -- look at the recent unanimous decision about civil asset forfeiture. But they inevitably get some decisions wrong too.

Kavanaugh was chosen because of his ideology. So were all of the rest of the current members of the Court, and, in fact all of the Justices in the past several decades. Kavanaugh was chosen because he's conservative, as were Roberts, Thomas, Alito, and Gorsuch. The other current members of the Court were chosen because they're liberal -- Ginsberg, Breyer, Sotomayor, and Kagan. They're all mediocrities. None of them are what the Supreme Court truly deserves: the most highly objective interpreters of law that can be found in the country.