Editorial Board
Kavanaugh and Partisanship on the Supreme Court
During confirmation hearings, senators should ask tough questions about the court’s widening partisan divide.
Enter Kavanaugh.
Photographer: Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images North AmericaNow that President Donald Trump has named circuit court Judge Brett Kavanaugh as his choice for the U.S. Supreme Court, Congress will begin the predictable process of scrutinizing him.
That process is often disingenuous, sometimes ugly and rarely productive. Democrats are now scouring Kavanaugh’s biography for evidence of intolerable character flaws and his opinions for signs of ideological extremism. Republicans are preparing a glossy brochure of intellectual brilliance and personal beneficence.