Harvard Law Professor Emeritus Alan Dershowitz said Tuesday he'll likely disagree with many of Judge Brett Kavanaugh's opinions if he's confirmed as a Supreme Court justice, but "it's hard to question his qualifications for the job."
"He went to Yale Law School and taught at Harvard," Dershowitz told Fox News' "Fox & Friends" program. "What can be wrong with that?"
Dershowitz noted that Kavanaugh has a great deal of support from centrist academics, and is "regarded as a very scholarly, very smart person."
He added that people who are centrist liberals such as himself hope that Kavanaugh will be more like retiring Justice Anthony Kennedy or Chief Justice John Roberts than he is like Trump's other appointee, Justice Neil Gorsuch, "but only time will tell."
"Look, he will be on the court, 30, 40 years," said Dershowitz. "We don't know what the issues are going to be 30, 40 years from now."
Dershowitz also took issue with Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., who called Kavanaugh "hostile" to everyone Monday as news broke about his nomination.
"She knows him," he said. "They serve together on the law school faculty. He is not a hostile person. She is obviously saying what her base wants to hear."
Dershowitz also called Supreme Court battles a "tragedy," and said Republicans are also to blame, as they blocked former President Barack Obama's pick for the court, Merrick Garland, from coming before Congress.
"I think that was a violation of the spirit of the Constitution," said Dershowitz. "Democrats are going to fight back. The losers are the American public. We lose very qualified people [to politics]."
He said he believes Kavanaugh will go through, but it will be tight, unlike votes in previous eras.
"[Antonin] Scalia got 99 votes," said Dershowitz. "Justice [Ruth Bader] Ginsburg got 90-some odd votes."
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