Brett Kavanaugh is a Republican’s dream Supreme Court Justice

After reciting the usual homilies about the need to interpret the American Constitution as it was written, President Trump appeared visibly bored once his nominee for the Supreme Court, Brett Kavanaugh, took the podium. Who could blame him? There was little Trump could do to inject much excitement into the proceedings and it’s never as much fun to make a solemn announcement as it is to rant and rave in front of tens of thousands of your pursuivants in a sports arena or to send out tweets denouncing NATO or threatening a trade war with China.

To be sure, Kavanaugh had clearly been primed on how to curry favour with his benefactor. He was careful to make the outlandish claim upfront that “no president has ever consulted more widely or talked to more people from more backgrounds to seek input for a Supreme Court nomination.” Trump himself called the 53-year-old Kavanaugh “one of the finest and sharpest legal minds of our time.”