There was a fair amount of speculation that when Bret Kavanagh went off in his rant against left wing conspiracies and revenge for the Clintons he was following instructions from the Trump administration. That is of course just a theory or a storey but it has a great deal of verisimilitude. His Imperial Majesty does not bless those who do not have a fair measure of attack dog in them. It is also instructive that during that rant he was reading from a prepared script. He was not reacting to a hostile question.
It is now clear that the nomination will pass and it is also clear that the nominee would do practically anything in order to secure his position. The clincher was the announce votes of Sen. Susan Collins. Her vote was at the end of a nearly hour-long" speech". I haven't heard her speak before and I must say that didn't sound like something she had written herself. It pretty much looked like a brief prepared by the Federalist Society, Particularly the analysis of judicial opinions either written by the nominee or which he had favorably described.
Be that as it may, it is hard not to believe that Trump now has a mini-me on the Supreme Court. The best we can hope for is that this justice will know he is under closer than usual scrutiny. It appears that he has exhibited wildly different behavior during periods of his life. Perhaps his better angels will reassert themselves. In any event, had this nomination failed the Federalist Society would've produced another clone. Regardless of the midterm elections, the Republicans would've controlled the Senate until January and pushed through their nominee. Our best hope now is justice Roberts who certainly is a conservative but it appears to have a fair amount of integrity.
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