Kennedy’s Retirement Roils Election-Year Landscape

NEW YORK (AP) — Nothing could have shifted the political landscape more than this.
Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy’s retirement and President Donald Trump’s pledge to move quickly to fill the seat guarantee a searing summer of charged rhetoric that could touch on virtually every hot-button social and cultural issue in American politics.
The news was especially deflating for Democrats, who felt immediate flashbacks to the 2016 presidential election, when the tantalizing pr