Some overcompensate, especially when your academia friends are calling for your head. Anyway, he has is own philosophy which includes operating under stare decisis which any independent Judge should shun.
Case law is another word for Super Legislature which is not the original intent of the Constitution at all. Alexander Hamilton "promised" that would not be the case when Robert Yates criticized Article III of the Constitution. History proved Yates was correct.
Well, it is what it is, for good or no now. And we won't know what Kavanaugh will or won't do, until he has been on SCOTUS ( if he gets there, which he shall...come hell or high water now )for a while.
We all need to get out there and vote and get others to also vote a straight GOP ticket, come November, so that the next nominee for SCOTUS, that Trump puts up ( please let THAT be very soon !), is easily confirmed, because the GOP has a much larger majority in the Senate.