“Brett Kavanaugh wants to make it even easier for gunmen to obtain assault rifles; And he’s probably got the votes to do it”: Ian Millhiser has this essay online at ThinkProgress.

“Trump judges face scrutiny over president’s cases”: Naomi Jagoda and Jacqueline Thomsen of The Hill have this report.

“Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s lecture moved to North Little Rock’s Verizon Arena”: Maggie McNeary of The Arkansas Democrat-Gazette has this report.

“Supreme Court justices address reforms one year since impeachment”: In today’s edition of The Parkersburg (W. Va.) News and Sentinel, Steven Allen Adams has a front page article that begins, “Nearly one year after the West Virginia House of Delegates impeached four justices of the state Supreme Court of Appeal, Chief Justice Beth Walker is able to look back and see the positive that came out of that process.”

“Supreme Court Justice Jeff Hughes defends handling of case that prompted apology”: Andrea Gallo and John Simerman of The Advocate of Baton Rouge, Louisiana have this report.

“McConnell Says He ‘Saved the Supreme Court for a Generation'”: Anna Edney of Bloomberg News has this report.

In local coverage, Phillip M. Bailey of The Courier Journal of Louisville, Kentucky reports that “McConnell couldn’t escape ‘Moscow Mitch’ at Kentucky’s biggest political picnic.”

And Daniel Desrochers and Jack Brammer of The Lexington Herald-Leader report that “McConnell fires back at Kentucky Democrats wearing ‘Moscow Mitch’ shirts.”