This is what I'm afraid of, though it's not completely rational. Souter had virtually no paper trail, serving less than a year at the first circuit, and HW was surrounded by statist traitors who whispered Souter's name in his ear. Kavanaugh has a 10 year track record at the DC circuit. He's no Scalia, but he seems like an Alito with a little less love for regulatory executive administrations.