California Mediator, Attorney and Conflict Resolution Consultant Mark B. Baer predicts that Supreme Court Nominee Brett Kavanaugh will take this country back into the Dark Ages on political, social and gender issues if he is confirmed to the U.S. Supreme Court. Mediator Baer’s assessment is based on a report published in the May 2014 issue of the American Journal of Political Science by authors Adam N. Glynn of Emory University and Maya Sen of Harvard University. The study is entitled “Identifying Judicial Empathy: Does Having Daughters Cause Judges to Rule for Women’s Issues?”