SELWYN DUKE — There perhaps has never been a time when the Democrats did a better job of snatching defeat from the jaws of victory. After being well ahead in the generic congressional polls, those numbers collapsed early this year along with the Trump/Russia/Collusion narrative. Since then, leftists have been flailing around desperately searching for an issue.... (more)

NBC WASHINGTON — A U.S. Secret Service officer was injured in an assault while on patrol outside the White House on Saturday shortly after the major immigration rally in Lafayette Park, according to newly filed federal court records.... (more)

THE HILL — From the perspective of some House Democrats, Rep. Maxine Waters (D-Calif.) has the right message. She's just not always the best messenger. The Los Angeles lawmaker's early calls for President Trump's impeachment and viral showdowns with administration officials have endeared Waters to the party's young, liberal base. And those stances have also garnered the respect of many House Democrats, who admire how Waters, 79, sticks to her political convictions.... (more)

NEWSMAX — Judicial Watch founder and conservative former federal prosecutor Larry Klayman supports Chicago Circuit Court Judge Amy Coney Barrett to fill a soon-to-be vacated Supreme Court seat -- but thinks Democrats are "already trying to smear her."... (more)

NEWSMAX — Workers and cast members have walked off the set of a film that features Hollywood actor Jon Voight in protest of the movie's pro-life angle. According to The Hollywood Reporter, the film is co-directed by Nick Loeb and Cathy Allyn and has faced challenges during its shooting in New Orleans.... (more)

NATIONAL REVIEW — Rich and Andy McCarthy discuss how Andy's love and respect for the law shaped his career.... (more)

WES VERNON — "Somebody's going to be hurt or killed," warn the pundits regarding the vile insults and threats coming from the far left these days. Now we're seeing an apparent eager anticipation of just that outcome: Writing an op-ed posted by "a leftist website indirectly owned by Univision" named Splinter News, Hamilton Nolan predicts terror ahead.... (more)

ALAN KEYES — Ronald Reagan appointed Justice Anthony Kennedy to the U.S. Supreme Court on Sept. 11, 1987. In his nominating speech, President Reagan described the U.S. Circuit Judge Kennedy as "a true conservative – one who believes that our constitutional system is one of enumerated power – that it is we, the people, who have granted certain rights to the government, not the other way around.... Those three words, 'We the People,' are an all important reminder of the only legitimate source of the government's authority over its citizens...."... (more)

VICTOR SHARPE — Neil Diamond's acclaimed hit song, "They're Coming to America," was his patriotic interpretation of historic and legal immigration into the United States. The powerful melody ends with an interpolation of the traditional and patriotic song, "My Country, Tis of Thee."... (more)

BRYAN FISCHER — To the joy of authentic conservatives all across America, Anthony Kennedy this week announced his retirement from the United States Supreme Court. As if signaling his upcoming departure, Kennedy joined the conservative majority in a flurry of very important opinions published toward the very end of his last term -- opinions that protected First Amendment protections for crisis pregnancy clinics, Christian wedding vendors, and non-union members, and upheld the president's authority to restrict immigration in order to protect national security.... (more)

ROBERT KNIGHT — Remember when President Trump said we were going to win so much that we are going to get tired of it? That's exactly how it felt this past month. But I'm not tired. Far from it. The Supreme Court has been delivering, big time, on Mr. Trump's promise to restore the rule of law. And the left is showing America its profoundly un-American and uncivil face every single day. On June 4, the Court upheld the right of Christian baker Jack Phillips in Masterpiece Cakeshop v. Colorado Civil Rights Commission not to be forced to help facilitate a same-sex "wedding."... (more)

NEWSMAX — Rod Rosenstein's testimony before Congress this week has been analyzed and spun by pundits on all sides, each interpreting the testimony in a way that fits their preferred narrative of the Mueller investigation. However, to any current or former military officer or law enforcement executive, the most striking takeaway from this testimony is how Rod Rosenstein thoroughly demonstrated his abject lack of leadership and fundamental misunderstanding of the responsibilities of command.... (more)

NERWSMAX — Mitt Romney said it is too early to say whether he would vote to re-elect President Donald Trump in 2020. "It's too early to say who I will support," said the former GOP presidential candidate, who is now running for a Senate seat from Utah.... (more)

WASHINGTON EXAMINER — Michael Brendan Dougherty has some advice for President Trump that I think is worth repeating, in regards to replacing Justice Anthony Kennedy this fall: Appoint Amy Coney Barrett, Trump's recent addition to the 7th Circuit Court of Appeals. The facts of Barrett's life -- that she is a mother of seven children, and that when she speaks about her Catholic faith, she speaks about God as if she really believes in His existence -- will provoke nasty and bigoted statements from Democratic senators and liberal media personalities. Again.... It won't just be her faith.... (more)

ANDREW C. MCCARTHY — 'You're the boss." That was Representative Jim Jordan's terse rejoinder during a feisty exchange with Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein at the House Judiciary Committee's oversight hearing on Thursday. The Ohio Republican was blasting Rosenstein over information Republicans say Justice Department officials have concealed from Congress for a year.... (more)

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)