“Trump Has Finalists for Supreme Court Pick; President expects to announce choice for Justice Kennedy’s successor on Monday night”: Peter Nicholas will have this article in Friday’s edition of The Wall Street Journal.

“Meet the Shortlisters: Brett Kavanaugh.” Harsh Voruganti has this post at his blog, “The Vetting Room.”

“Reversing Roe v. Wade Won’t Help Republicans: Overturning the landmark 1973 ruling, as seems more and more likely, might take away a powerful tool for energizing conservative voters — and it might motivate liberal ones.” Law professor Carol Sanger has this essay online at The New York Times.

“President Trump narrows Supreme Court search, focuses on three judges”: David Jackson of USA Today has this report.

And on this evening’s broadcast of NPR’s “All Things Considered,” Nina Totenberg had an audio segment titled “Trump Narrows List Of Supreme Court Justice Nominees.”

“Ruth Bader Ginsburg in Israel: I Pity Your Supreme Court Justices; The Notorious RBG tells Jerusalem audience she is not the retiring type, unlike her peers in the Jewish state who are forced to retire at 70.” Allison Kaplan Sommer of Haaretz has this report.

“Political Polarization Takes Hold of the Supreme Court”: Carl Hulse of The New York Times has this new installment of his “On Washington” column.

“Amy Coney Barrett, possible Supreme Court nominee, has backed ‘flexible’ approach to court precedent”: Beth Reinhard of The Washington Post has this report.

“Chuck Schumer appealed to Trump to pick Merrick Garland for Supreme Court”: Veronica Stracqualursi and Ashley Killough of CNN have this report.

“Trump privately indicated that he has settled on a Supreme Court nominee”: Brian Schwartz of CNBC has this report.

“Judge Thapar and Judicial Duty”: Lillian BeVier has this post at National Review’s “Bench Memos” blog.

Also at that blog, Roger Meyers has a post titled “Judge Kethledge Faithfully Applies Immigration Laws.”

“Don’t Try to Expand the Number of Supreme Court Justices”: Josh Blackman has this essay online at National Review.

“Trump narrows Supreme Court short list, top 3 contenders emerge; Those candidates are appeals court judges Brett Kavanaugh, Raymond Kethledge and Amy Coney Barrett, a source tells NBC News”: Peter Alexander and Dartunorro Clark of NBC News have this report.

“Getting To No On Roe”: Leah Litman has this post at the “Take Care” blog.

“Justice Anthony Kennedy made his mark on First Amendment jurisprudence”: David L. Hudson Jr. has this post online at The First Amendment Encyclopedia.

“Four thoughts on Judge Kavanaugh”: Jed Shugerman has this post at his “Shugerblog.”

“Trump should take a serious look at Amul Thapar for the Supreme Court”: Ilya Shapiro has this essay online at the Washington Examiner.

“Meet the Shortlisters: Amy Coney Barrett.” Harsh Voruganti has this post at his blog, “The Vetting Room.”

“Grassley: Supreme Court confirmation unlikely before October term; Senator says ‘it would be pushing it’ to have ninth justice seated by then.” James Lynch of The Gazette of Cedar Rapids, Iowa has this report.

“Senators Collins and Murkowski, It’s Time to Leave the G.O.P.” Susan Faludi has this essay online at The New York Times.

“Trump Blows Away a Penumbra: Liberals are hysterical because a long era of judge-made law may be about to end.” Columnist Daniel Henninger has this essay online at The Wall Street Journal.

“With Brett Kavanaugh, America will have a bold, brilliant Supreme Court justice”: Matt Schlapp has this essay online at The Hill.

“Why Roe v. Wade is likely not in grave danger no matter whom Trump nominates: The Supreme Court will be reluctant to take away a constitutional privacy right, even if that right was granted with dubious reasoning.” Danny Cevallos has this essay online at NBC News.

And online at USA Today, Harry Litman has an essay titled “Anthony Kennedy’s Supreme Court retirement threatens abortion rights even if Roe survives; Even if the Supreme Court doesn’t overturn Roe v. Wade, the addition of a conservative justice will have ripple effects that severely curtail abortion rights.”

“Trump’s Supreme Court Pick May Turn on Outliers in Both Parties”: Steven T. Dennis and Laura Litvan of Bloomberg News have this report.

“How Will We Know What a Supreme Court Nominee Really Thinks?” Linda Greenhouse has this essay online at The New York Times.