President Trump has nominated Brett Kavanaugh, a jurist who believes that decisions should be based on what the Constitution says and not on what a judge wishes that it said, to be the newest member of the United States Supreme Court.
Frankly, I don't understand why Judge Kavanaugh would accept the nomination given the way he is about to be savaged by a progressive left that believes that the end of defeating Trump justifies any means.
I hope I'm wrong but I'm pretty sure that Kavanaugh, his family, and his entire personal history are about to be subjected to humiliating public scrutiny by people in the media and Congress who are willing to smear and even destroy a man's reputation and career if that man is ideologically unsatisfactory to the progressive left.
It's quite remarkable that anyone would be willing to put his family through what the Democrats did to Robert Bork and to Clarence Thomas, and what they're almost certain to do to anyone President Trump might have nominated, but evidently, Judge Kavanaugh is willing to brave the slime storm that's headed his way.
The assault on Kavanaugh - and perhaps, too, the pressure on liberal Republican senators and Democrat senators running for reelection in states where Trump won in 2016 to vote against him - will be brutal, relentless, and probably both coarse and cruel.
Even if Kavanaugh is a saint and nothing can be found in his personal life with which to malign him, it won't matter. His opponents will fabricate a scandal if they feel they must.
It's deeply ironic that the people on the left who've lectured us for decades that there should be no "litmus test" for Supreme Court Justices, particularly on the issue of abortion, are now wholly committed to making abortion a "litmus test".
Anyway, I wish Judge Kavanaugh well. He appears to be a highly qualified jurist and a man of high moral character, and that's all that should matter for confirmation. Unfortunately, in these debased times only two "qualifications" seem to matter: Who the president is and what the nominee's position is on Roe v. Wade.