“If the Democrats win the House, they’ll probably hold some kind of hearings on the fact that a lot of people think that he perjured himself during his confirmation hearings to the Court of Appeals,” Carville predicted.

Carville said the result of the Kavanaugh confirmation in terms of politics “is probably as good as you could hope for” for Democrats.

“He’s not going to go away and had they defeated him, they would have just picked someone equally as right-wing as Kavanaugh… in a lame duck session. We’re not going to get this seat on the Supreme Court and I think in terms of political optimization, I think today’s result is probably as good as you could hope for,” Carville told Smerconish.

The veteran Democratic strategist warned this is just the beginning, that Democrats will “keep digging up stuff” on Kavanaugh and that he will be a campaign issue not just in 2018 but 2020 as well.

“Kavanaugh is going to be an issue in 2018. He’s going to be an issue in 2020. The Democrats are going to keep digging up stuff. The press is not going to stop all of the things that they’re working on about Kavanaugh,” he said.

Christine Blasey Ford had just revealed her identity and was prepared to testify in public, detailing her allegations that Kavanaugh had tried to sexual assault her more than three decades ago. On top of that, a New Yorker article had just revealed that a second woman, Deborah Ramirez, was accusing Kavanaugh of exposing his genitals to her while they were college students.

Then came Michael Avenatti.

The combative lawyer, who represents Stormy Daniels and has been a ubiquitous presence on cable television, revealed a stunning new allegation: A woman, Julie Swetnick, said she had witnessed the Supreme Court nominee attending more than 10 house parties between 1981 and 1983 where Kavanaugh and his friend, Mark Judge, were present. At some of those parties, she alleged, Kavanaugh was “fondling and grabbing girls without their consent” and, along with others, spiking drinks to force girls to lose their inhibitions.

She also alleged that at some parties, boys lined up by a bedroom to “gang-rape” incapacitated girls and claimed those in the lineup included Kavanaugh and Judge. But she did not say Kavanaugh or Judge assaulted the girls in the bedroom, nor did she provide the names of corroborating witnesses.
Kavanaugh furiously denied the allegations.

But the eye-popping nature of those claims suddenly gave Republicans an opportunity to shift the narrative away from Ford’s allegations and make a broader case that the growing accusations of sexual misconduct amounted to an orchestrated Democratic smear campaign, something Sen. Susan Collins, the swing GOP vote, cited herself when announcing she’d be the decisive vote to support Kavanaugh’s confirmation.

Re: Roe v Wade

We’ll have to wait and see if the U.S. Supreme Court actually rolls back Women’s Rights and ends legal abortion. But if they do take that step it will be because the majority of voters (via the EC) are just fine with that.

“Elections have consequences” – Pres. Barack Obama