Kavanaugh may indeed be a highly qualified judge, a bright and respected professional and a solid family man.
But I've been struck by his arrogance and lack of empathy for the people who will be affected by his decisions--specifically, the teenager fleeing abuse who was seeking an abortion. Kavanaugh's decisions would have delayed her access to the procedure until it was no longer possible, forcing a young, unmarried woman fleeing parental abuse to become a mother as a teen in a country where we currently have so little respect for immigrant families that we are kidnapping the children of refugees seeking asylum at our southern border and then losing them in a bureaucracy.
I have no doubt the victim's story is true.
I also believe Kavanaugh--that he has no memory of the incident. What, for him, was a drunken youthful indiscretion that meant so little to him that he has no recollection of it was, for the victim, a frightening sexual assault that her assailants were too drunk to even register.
My mother always told me to trust my gut. This woman's gut told her she was in grave danger, and I believe her.
My gut also tells me that
Max Boot is right--Kavanaugh will apply his own narrow definitions of justice to his decisions in court with little or no empathy or sympathy for those who will literally bear the consequences.
I hope he isn't confirmed.