Bloomberg Law
July 17, 2018, 4:20 PM UTC

Kavanaugh’s Place Among Court’s Conservatives Unclear

Kimberly Strawbridge Robinson

Judge Brett Kavanaugh will likely be a reliable conservative vote if confirmed to the U.S. Supreme Court. But it’s hard to pin him down further than that, court watchers told Bloomberg Law.

Among the current conservative justices, Chief Justice G. Roberts Jr. is generally thought of as center-right; Justice Clarence Thomas is almost universally considered the most conservative; and Justices Neil M. Gorsuch and Samuel A. Alito Jr. fall somewhere in between.

But the longtime D.C. Circuit judge isn’t easy to pin down, court watchers say.

Instead of being like any particular current justice, it’s likely that Justice Kavanaugh will ...

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