Kavanaugh Confirmed, Justice Prevailed

“After one of the most intense political fights of the last two decades, Judge Brett Kavanaugh of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit has become Associate Justice Brett Kavanaugh of the United States Supreme Court. This is a good thing for the integrity of our Constitution, for elementary American norms, and for the long-term health of our political institutions,” the National Review editorial board writes.

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In The Hill, Heritage Foundation Senior Legal Fellow Thomas Jipping writes that the real story with Justice Kavanaugh is that he “will be an impartial, rather than a political, justice. He believes that the law, not his personal views or priorities, should decide the cases that come before him. Justice Kavanaugh is committed to the defined, modest role for the judiciary that America’s founders made part of their design for our system of government.”

“Nearly two years after Donald Trump was elected president with promises to rework America’s relationship with its trading partners, and less than two months after he agreed to a new trade deal with Mexico, the president succeeded in bringing Canada on board a new trilateral North American trade arrangement,” The Washington Timeseditorial board writes. "The commentariat, the Democrats, most Republicans, the media . . . said the president would never succeed in his quest to reorient the country’s economic relationship with Canada and Mexico. But he has."

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo “arrived in Seoul hours after wrapping up his fourth visit to North Korea on Sunday, telling reporters it was a ‘good trip’ and that he and [Kim] made strides on the initiatives discussed at June’s historic summit in Singapore between the North Korean leader and President Trump,” Carlo Muñoz reports for The Washington Times.