Conventional wisdom says the Democrats are fighting tooth and nail to derail Judge Brett Kavanaugh's confirmation to the Supreme Court because he'll provide the fifth vote to overturn Roe v. Wade. As much as I hate to admit it, I don't think Roe will be overturned, and the Democrats know it, too.  Of course, they certainly want their gullible voter base to believe that Kavanaugh will overturn Roe to energize that base for the midterm elections.  But it's not going to happen. That's not to say that Roe shouldn't be overturned.  Roe is a disgrace, breathtaking for its lack of legal reasoning.  As the late Judge Robert Bork pointed out in The Tempting of America: The Political Seduction of the Law, the Roe court didn't even bother to decide whether the supposed "right of privacy" – transmuted into a "right to abortion" – was to be found in the Ninth Amendment or the Fourteenth...(Read Full Post)