Max Boot: It’s not about Kavanaugh’s judicial philosophy

Judge Brett Kavanaugh of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit is a superbly qualified Supreme Court nominee. But let’s be honest about why he was chosen — and why his choice is so popular on the right. It’s not because of his judicial philosophy, known as “originalism” — i.e., trying to discern the original meaning of the Constitution.Aside possibly from a few members of the Federalist Society, which helped to put together President Donald Trump's ma