LOS ANGELES TIMES — President Trump is expected to move quickly to nominate a replacement for retiring Justice Anthony M. Kennedy's soon-to-be-vacant Supreme Court seat, and two leading candidates are veteran Washington, D.C., appellate Judge Brett Kavanaugh and Judge Amy Coney Barrett, a former Notre Dame law professor and recent Trump appointee to the 7th Circuit in Chicago.... (more)

SLATE — It's no secret that Justice Anthony Kennedy, who announced his imminent retirement on Wednesday, always had an eye toward his legacy. During this 30-year tenure on the Supreme Court, Kennedy often wrote grandiose opinions that seemed designed to be quoted and admired by future generations. That line of thinking was particularly evident in a series of decisions protecting gay Americans' right to equal dignity. Yet by choosing to retire under President Donald Trump, Kennedy imperils that legacy, throwing his most celebrated and far-reaching decisions into serious jeopardy.... (more)

NEWSMAX — North Korea may be engaged in an international game of "hide and seek," according to U.S. intelligence agencies, NBC News reported Friday. According to NBC sources, North Korea may be upping its production of weapons-grade nuclear material at secret sites, and its leader, Kim Jong Un, will keep both the production and the location of those sites under wraps while seeking concessions from the U.S.... (more)

WASHINGTON TIMES — It seems the Trump administration knows the law better than the Obama administration. The Justice Department under Attorney General Jeff Sessions reversed positions of the Obama administration in four cases decided by the Supreme Court this year -- and won all four of them.... (more)

NEWSMAX — The man and woman creep down the school hallway back-to-back, guns drawn. A tap on the backside signals they are ready to move into the next room. He keeps his weapon pointed straight ahead. She scans for dangers that may spring up behind them.... (more)

NEWSMAX — Two 16-year-old brothers have been arrested and are being held without bond for the gang-related Silver Springs, Maryland, stabbing death of another teen, Fox 5 DC reported. The two MS-13 member brothers, Lenin and Bryan Mancias-Callejas, arrived in the United States as unaccompanied minors and are both El Salvadoran nationals, according to The Daily Caller.... (more)

HOLLYWOOD REPORTER — Weeks after being pardoned by President Donald Trump, Dinesh D'Souza is unveiling the trailer for his latest movie. Quality Flix opens the conservative's latest documentary film, Death of a Nation, in 1,000 theaters on Aug. 3. The film likens Abraham Lincoln to Donald Trump -- saying that the situations they found themselves in as U.S. presidents are very similar, according to the filmmaker. "Lincoln was elected to unite a country and stop slavery. Democrats smeared him; went to war against him; assassinated him. Now, their target is Trump," D'Souza intones at the top of the trailer before announcing the movie is produced by Gerald Molen, the Oscar-winning producer of Schindler's List and Jurassic Park.... (more)

WESLEY PRUDEN — Nobody has ever proved that Andy Warhol said "in the future everyone will be world-famous for 15 minutes." But he has been misquoted so often that a lot of people think he did. (Read the quotation carefully). A wiser man did say that "nothing recedes like success," and we see that proved all around us every day.... (more)

WASHINGTON TIMES — A reporter at The Republican newspaper in Massachusetts resigned Friday after falsely claiming on Twitter that the man accused of gunning down five journalists Thursday at a Maryland newspaper wore a "Make America Great Again" hat as he carried out his attack. Conor Berry apologized for the mistake in a pinned tweet, calling it "stupid" and "regrettable." His Twitter bio now states, "Former newspaper reporter."... (more)

WASHINGTON TIMES — A pro-Net Neutrality activist is facing federal charges after police say he threatened to kill the children of Federal Communications Commission Chairman Ajit Pai. In a December email, sent just after the FCC revoked the Obama-era Net Neutrality policy, Markara Man listed addresses of several preschools near Mr. Pai's home in Arlington.... (more)

ART MOORE — Mocking people who are urging civility in public discourse regarding President Trump's enforcement of federal immigration laws, former presidential candidate Hillary Clinton called on Democrats to resist her 2016 opponent with "strength and resolve."... (more)

JOAN SWIRSKY — In Hillary's cringe-producing appearances over the past year and a half -- since she lost the U.S. presidency in 2016 to Donald J. Trump -- she has offered upward of 38 excuses to rationalize her loss, which Amanda Prestigiacomo has documented here exquisitely.... (more)

WASHINGTON TIMES — Youth is a factor as President Trump searches for his pivotal nominee to replace Justice Anthony M. Kennedy on the Supreme Court, a task that the president said Thursday is already in high gear. The president is looking for a nominee who can leave a conservative mark on the high court for most of the next half-century, extending Mr. Trump's impact far beyond his presidency. "We have to pick one that's going to be there for 40 years, 45 years," Mr. Trump said Wednesday night.... (more)

NEWSMAX — The House approved a Republican-backed resolution demanding that the Justice Department turn over all remaining documents sought by congressional committees on the investigation into Russian election interference and President Donald Trump's campaign.... (more)

JERRY NEWCOMBE — The Bible is being used by both sides in the current immigration debate. Attorney General Jeff Sessions is quoting Romans 13 on how we should obey the government, since it's been ordained by God.... (more)

AP NEWS — Justice Anthony Kennedy, the Supreme Court's decisive man in the middle on abortion, gay rights and other contentious issues, announced his retirement Wednesday, giving President Donald Trump a golden chance to cement conservative control of the nation's highest court.... (more)

ART MOORE — The longtime swing vote on the U.S. Supreme Court and the architect of the landmark same-sex marriage decision, Justice Anthony Kennedy, announced his retirement Wednesday, setting up an epic confirmation battle in the Senate, with Democrats facing the possibility of a generational shift to the right.... (more)

WASHINGTON TIMES — America has been living in Justice Anthony M. Kennedy's world for the past 12 years. The 81-year-old jurist, who announced his retirement Wednesday, has been the decider in chief on most of the major controversial cases to reach the Supreme Court ever since 2006, which was when the court's balance shifted to him after Sandra Day O'Connor's retirement.... (more)

NEWSMAX — Legal experts say the Supreme Court justice to succeed retiring Anthony Kennedy might ultimately be the end of legalized abortion, Law & Crime reported. University of Chicago Law Professor Geoffrey Stone told the legal news website conservatives currently on the nation's hight court bench have a history of overturning precedent -- including Wednesday's ruling in a union fees case.... (more)

WORLDNETDAILY — Charging that Rep. Maxine Waters, D-Calif., assaulted her, a journalist has filed a complaint with U.S. Capitol Police. BizPac Review said journalist Laura Loomer was doing to Waters what "the California Democrat urged liberals to do to Trump aides: Confront them in public."... (more)

WASHINGTON TIMES — President Trump's travel ban policy is both legal and constitutional, the Supreme Court ruled Tuesday, delivering a massive victory to the White House and dashing hopes of Democrats and activists who hoped the justices would join the resistance. Instead, the court, in a 5-4 ruling, said the president has broad powers to control who is admitted to the U.S. The ruling said those powers are strongest when the president is acting on national security grounds and, in this case, Mr. Trump gave sufficient justification for the need to restrict entry from some uncooperative countries.... (more)

DAVID FRENCH — Today, a five-justice majority of the Supreme Court demonstrated unequivocally that it can read and apply the plain language of a federal statute. The only surprise in the Court's travel-ban ruling is that four dissenting justices tried to find a way around the express will of Congress. The message here is clear: If the American people don't want the president to exercise a breathtaking degree of control over American immigration policy, then Congress must act. The courts won't save you from the law.... (more)

WASHINGTON TIMES — California can't force pro-life crisis pregnancy centers to promote abortion as a health care option, the Supreme Court ruled Tuesday, saying the state's attempt to do so violated the groups' First Amendment speech rights. The justices, in a 5-4 ruling, said a 2015 state law requiring the centers to post notices about obtaining an abortion, including state assistance in paying for the procedure, amounted to government-coerced speech.... (more)

ROLL CALL — Debt as a share of the United States economy is on track to blow through the previous World War II-era record within two decades and keep rising from there, the Congressional Budget Office said in its annual long-term budget report.... (more)

BOB UNRUH — Washington watchdog Judicial Watch sent a letter Tuesday to the House Office of Congressional Ethics asking for an investigation of the statements made over the weekend by Rep. Maxine Waters, D-Calif.... (more)