This prediction from Glenn Reynolds sounds right

How Kavanaugh’s confirmation will change the Supreme Court

With Brett Kavanaugh as the newest Associate Justice of the Supreme Court, things are going to be different. But how different? Here are a few changes to look for:

► There will be less change than you expect. Most Supreme Court decisions are boring, technical, and decided by easy majorities. That will still be true post-Kavanaugh.

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► Strange New Respect for judicial minimalism. As Harvard Law Professor Adrian Vermeule remarked, “Law review editors: brace for a tidal wave of legal academic theories supporting judicial minimalism, Thayerianism, and strong — very strong — theories of precedent. Above all: the Court must do nothing without bipartisan agreement, otherwise it is illegitimate.” The past half-century’s enthusiasm for judicial activism will vanish, as legal academia turns on a dime to promote theories that will constrain the Court until a left-leaning majority returns, at which point they’ll turn on a dime again.

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As George Mason University Law School’s Adam White notes, we may see a rerun of the “Impeach Earl Warren” campaigns of the 1960s, only from the left. (Though, to be fair, the move to impeach Warren was led by Democrats, too, of the segregationist variety.)

And of course, there’s this prediction, which is sure to delight the manufacturer of Orvile Redenbacher’s popcorn:

Of course, the shrieking hysterics surrounding this Supreme Court appointment, as bad as they are, will likely pale beside the shrieking hysterics we’ll see if, as seems likely, President Trump has a chance to replace aging liberal heroine Ruth Bader Ginsburg. So there’s that to look forward to, anyway.