The son of late Supreme Court Associate Justice Antonin Scalia told Fox News on Sunday that his father wouldn’t have been shocked by the partisan conflagration surrounding the nomination of Judge Brett Kavanaugh, owing to what he called the improperly outsized power of the Supreme Court in modern life. “On a general level, he wouldn’t be terribly surprised about the intensity surrounding this Supreme Court nomination, because so much of it comes down to Roe v. Wade — at least, that’s how the left is presenting it,” Christopher Scalia said, referring to the landmark 1973 case holding that women have a constitutional right to an abortion within certain trimesters. In one fell swoop, Roe effectively prevented states from deciding on their own how to regulate abortion, and several states immediately took steps to try to restrict abortion rights in response. “My father often said, with Roe v. Wade in particular but other cases as well, the court was really trying to come in and settle a cultural issue that should have been resolved in elections, and the legislative process,” he added during his appearance on “Fox & Friends.” “By tr
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