The nomination by President Trump of Brett Kavanaugh as a Judge of the Supreme Court of the USA is very significant. That is because being a judge in the USA does not exactly begin and end with applying the law; the true role of a judge in that forward-thinking country is to change society in ways that are not embodied in the law but which judges think are good for the people, thus avoiding a vote on whether or not the people themselves want that change which, usually, they do not.
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