Brett Kavanaugh Has Two Options
The newly confirmed justice can become an embittered partisan—or he can surprise people.
No Supreme Court justice has ever arrived under a darker cloud than the one over Brett Kavanaugh. Americans believe the women accusing him of sexual assault and abuse 52 percent to 38 percent. Many also think he lied to the Senate. His angry confirmation testimony was so injudicious that he had to write a mea culpa op-ed in The Wall Street Journal promising to do better if he made it to the Court.
The opposition to him was equally extraordinary. More than 2,400 law professors and one retired justice, John Paul Stevens, declared him unfit. Americans did not want him confirmed, 51 percent to 41
