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Gorsuch is a scary motherfucker. Kavanaugh is probably MORE ultraconservative than Gorsuch! And he blatantly lied* in the very beginning of his speech.
*Kavanaugh claimed Trump spent great time consulting for the Justice, when Trump never vets or even reads daily briefings.
P.S.: The fact that Kavanaugh declared that the sitting president is above the law and that the Kochs threatened to withhold $400 million of Republican mid-term funding unless Trump nominated him further brews the mainstream media's accusation of Trump as Putin's co-conspirator to win the election two years ago.
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Kavanaugh isn't significantly more conservative than Gorsuch, and it's evident that neither of them are more conservative than Alito, let alone Thomas. I'm not sure why you're citing TheNation, a news source that is clearly left leaning and a Twitter post that cites nothing. The Koch Brothers have supported Kavanaugh, yet I have searched up and found nothing on them threatening to cut off $400M (and said Twitter user also claims to be a hard liberal).
This Minnesota law review is where he defended executive branch authority, and while he did claim that "Congress might consider a law exempting a President – while in office – from criminal prosecution and investigation" (1461), further down he adds:" If the President does something dastardly, the impeachment process is available...moreover, an impeached and removed President is still subject to criminal prosecution afterwards" (1462). A few sentences before that he added: "The first [criticism] is that no one is above the law in our system of government. I strongly agree with that principle. But it is not ultimately a persuasive criticism of these suggestions. The point is not to put the President above the law or to eliminate checks on the President, but simply to defer litigation and investigations until the President is out of office."
He explicitly mentions that the president should not be above the law, simply deferring them from criminal investigation unless the president's actions were far too out of line. He points to President Clinton, expressing the opinion that apparently the country would have been better off focusing on bin Laden as a growing threat instead of a sex scandal )he worked with Kenneth Starr during the Whitewater Scandal, so it may come from personal experience). I personally don't agree with that, since there's potential for abuse there, but it definitely isn't the "above the law" idea that you think it is.
And he doesn't get fans from all conservatives, either. Ted Cruz complained once that he wasn't very conservative, and he has never openly opposed nor endorsed Affordable Care or Roe v. Wade (though he did claim that he didn't want it or Planned Parenthood v. Casey overturned, being a strong believer in precedent). So we shouldn't largely be concerned about abortion getting axed.