On the Monday of the second week of December, Justice Kavanaugh and Chief Justice Roberts joined the liberals on the court in declining to take up two cases involving the use of Medicaid funds for non-abortion health services, Andersen v Planned Parenthood and Gee v Planned Parenthood. Kevin Daley of the Daily Caller gave a pithy description of the situation’s importance, saying that it “indicates that Justice Brett Kavanaugh sided with the high court’s liberal wing to deny review of a lower court decision that favoured the nation’s largest abortion provider”.