Justice on Trial, a courtroom drama in which the word “drama” is uppermost, concerns the ordeal of now-Justice Brett Kavanaugh at the hands of the Washington Post, the New York Times and the Democrats of the United States Senate. But this is only a part of the story.

The larger one is how the national Democratic Party, founded by Thomas Jefferson and led over time by FDR, Harry Truman, and John F. Kennedy, have been swallowed alive by the abortion rights movement. Indeed, at some moments the party seems to exist for this purpose alone and no other.