By this time in 2020 I don't think the Kavanaugh appointment will be much of an issue. Roe v Wade will still be good law, although the Court likely has a mixed record in approving new restrictions on abortion. ]
[Update: some additional thoughts--the dog which won't bark, which no one is talking about today, is the overturning of a couple Supreme Court decisions, decisions of much more recent vintage than Roe v Wade--specifically the Windsor and Obergefell decisions legalizing gay marriage. That surprises but pleases me. But then, almost everything about the history of gay marriage surprises me. If you'd asked me in the mid-90's how things would work out, I'd have said at best gay marriage would be another issue like abortion--everlasting. But it's not become that. What we now call gay rights is still an issue, and that will continue but marriage itself is not.]
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