Which 1987 Supreme Court nominee is Brett Kavanaugh? (Mark Walsh)

President Ronald Reagan appointed two men for the Supreme Court in 1987. The first, Robert Bork, was rejected by the Senate by a 42 to 58 margin  for his conservative views on personal privacy and the court's landmark Roe v.  Wade decision that protects access to legal abortion. Reagan’s second nominee, Robert Kennedy, was confirmed by a 98-0 majority. After a 30-year tenure on the bench, Justice Kennedy set off a firestorm in Washington, DC last month when he announced he was retiring from his post where he was the Supreme Court justice long considered the “swing vote” by observers on both sides. With President Donald Trump announcing former Kennedy clerk Brett Kavanaugh as his judicial nominee on Monday, the highest court in the land appears poised to make a major swing to the right, that is, if he can get confirmed. On this week’s TrumpWatch, Mark Walsh of SCOTUSblog considers which type of candidate Kavanaugh is.