Eugene Scalia, a son of the late Justice, has emailed me in response to this post of mine yesterday:

Ed: Thank you for clarifying the record on Judge Kavanaugh. He is one of our best judges and would be an outstanding nominee. So would some others on the President’s list—and they would want to be selected for their own merits, I’m sure, not through Brett’s strength and contributions being slighted.
I’d appreciate if you could post this with your “Bench Memo” from Thursday.

I’m also pleased to point out that Ben Shapiro has graciously amended his piece in several respects in response to my critique.