Confirmations should be boring, procedural affairs, but we’ve managed to turn them into complete shitshows.

I somewhat disagree - this court either has 2 swing votes, or it comes down on the right of every issue. I suspect which of the two are more open to defying the 4 committed righties depends on the case.

Roberts was the swing vote in Dobbs. He would have decided that case in favor of MS without overturning Roe completely, and the nation’s temperature right now would be 50 degrees lower. Kavanaugh was not the swing vote on that one that he could have been to save the country all this angst.