I’ll add to this that many here at CAF seem to believe that the appointment of Judge Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court will somehow magically overturn Roe and end legal abortion in this country.
It won’t. First of all, the Supreme Court cannot simply rule on issues that they believe are important. They may only issue appellate rulings on cases that have been brought before the Court, and which they have agreed to hear. These cases, even if decided the way we at CAF would like them to be decided, are unlikely to involve blanket overturning of a Supreme Court precedent.
Second, Supreme Court justices are not as predictable as some here seem to think. Let’s not forget that Republican appointees to the Supreme Court gave us Roe in the first place. And that the oft-reviled (here at CAF) Sonia Sotomayor ruled (when she was a Circuit Court judge) to uphold the Mexico City policy.