What to expect in Kennedy successor confirmation hearings

I’m excited too. How could you not be? The prospect of a fifth Supreme Court Justice who is really committed to an originalist reading of the Constitution holds the prospect of far more than just overturning a few past rulings we’ve had to live with for far too long. There’s that. But there’s also the very appealing prospect that left-wing judges at various levels of the judiciary will realize they too have to follow the law rather than using their positions on the bench to serve as legislative and executive backups for hapless Democrat politicians (especially now that unions will not be able to serve as the campaign cash cows they used to be, and you should thank Justice Kennedy among others for that).