E.J. Dionne: Turn outrage over Kavanaugh into action

(Trent Nelson | The Salt Lake Tribune) Nancy Barrickman speaks at a protest against the nomination of Brett Kavanaugh in front of the Wallace F. Bennett Federal Building in Salt Lake City, Thursday Oct. 4, 2018. Washington - The Supreme Court’s legitimacy is in tatters. Conservative forces in the country, led by the Republican Party, have completed a judicial coup, decades in the making.

Republicans rushed through Brett Kavanaugh's confirmation to avoid the possible consequences of an election. They aborted a full investigation because they feared what it might find. They made themselves complicit in a presidential attack on Christine Blasey Ford, a brave woman who asked only that her case…