My previous predictions still stand; I think republicans will hold together and confirm Kavanaugh with a 51 seat majority, effectively telling Christine Ford and survivors across the country that coming forward with their stories is pointless. We will officially retire the #metoo hashtag as having run its course, and return to the status quo where sexual assault typically goes unreported and unpunished. Abusers will continue to rise to positions of power and influence.
And the ongoing escalation in the partisan warfare over judicial nominees will continue to escalate. Mitch McConnell certainly took it to new heights, and democrats would be dumb to not follow suit. From this point forward, I expect that no judges will get appointed to any benches without one party controlling both the presidency and the senate. For periods of two to six years between elections that might produce that result, when the presidency and the senate are split, no judges will be appointed and we'll have hundreds or thousands of vacancies on federal courts as people continue to retire. Case backlogs will grow to crazy lengths, trials will have to be delayed, and defendants will sit in jail for months or years waiting for their turn. Then one election will restore single-party control, and they'll have a pre-approved list of a thousand judges that will all get approved all at once on day one, regardless of qualifications, over the outcries of the other party. Advise and consent is done. From here on out, I think the entire federal judiciary from the supreme court on down is just an arm of one political party or the other, depending on which party has most recently had control and stacked the deck with partisan hacks.
American jurisprudence at its finest, friends. Try to stay out of trouble.