The court had never experienced anything like the intensity of the vitriol and volume of the response, which required it to go on lockdown for an afternoon, officials said.

By Eli Rosenberg @ WashingtonPost.com, Aug. 17

When I rooted for Reagan in the 1980s, it was a movement with intellectual heft. Back then, I thought that was the new conservative normal. But what if it was an aberration?

Op-ed by Matt Lewis @ DailyBeast.com, Aug. 15

As the Senate moves toward confirming Supreme Court nominee Brett M. Kavanaugh, President Trump and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell are leading a lower-key yet deeply consequential charge to remake the entire federal judiciary.

The Senate will return Wednesday from an abbreviated summer recess to confirm two more federal appeals court judges by the end of the week. That would come on top of a record-breaking string of confirmations: The Senate already has installed 24 appellate judges since Trump was sworn in, the highest number for a president’s first two years in office.