It’s not surprising. Kavanaugh was Kennedy’s hand picked successor. Do you think he would have picked someone who wasn’t predisposed to mimic Kennedy himself? Barrett chose to attend Rhodes College in Memphis, I believe. Rhodes is an ultra lefty private school. While she may be conservative in her personal conduct, that does not preclude her utilizing the indoctrination from Rhodes to justify judicial activism.
Kennedy would never have retired if he wasn’t certain his replacement was of a similar ilk. The fix was in from the beginning on that one.