BAD NEWS FOR DEMS’ DELAY SUPREME COURT VOTE TILL JANUARY STRATEGY: Turns out a clear majority of Americans want President Donald Trump to nominate Justice Anthony Kennedy’s replacement on the Supreme Court and the Senate to vote on confirmation before the November mid-term elections, according to a new poll from NBC.

WOULD YOU TRUST EITHER OF THESE DEM SENS WITH OUR COUNTRY? On the one hand, there is New York’s Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand. LifeZette’s Brendan Kirby introduces her to Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand. Between the two Gillibrands, you have the two poles on the ICE issue – she was for it before she is now against it.

Then there’s Illinois’ Sen. Richard Durbin who calls ICE “a bunch of incompetents.” When LifeZette’s Connor Wolf called Durbin to ask if he means the whole 20,000+ ICE workforce or just a select few, his spokesman declined to say.

Trump has one of the key characteristics of successful politicos — opponents who make him look better.

HERE’S THE SIX-YEAR-OLD ABANDONED JUNE 19 IN THE DESERT AT THE BORDER: Don’t expect to see this child in the New York Times or Washington Post. Somebody left him at the border with a note: ‘I am looking for my mother.” He was rescued by agents from the same agency a swelling chorus of Democrats want to abolish.

BARRY MANILOW TERRORIZES VAGRANTS IN FRONT OF CALIFORNIA RITE-AIDS: Yes, you read that right. The aging pop singer is perhaps best known for the hit “Copacabana,” but I doubt seriously that he ever expected the song to be weaponized. Find out more here.

ABOUT THAT FORMER CNN PRODUCER WHO NAILED ACOSTA: Turns out that Steve Krakauer, the former CNN producer who called White House Correspondent Jim Acosta’s latest outburst at President Donald Trump “an embarrassment at multiple levels” is quite a sharp and penetrating critic of the mainstream media. Check it out here.

HIGH COURT CONSERVATIVES FLUBBED A BIG ONE: When New Deal liberals weaponized the federal bureaucracy, one of their main tools was the creation of administrative subpoenas that empower unaccountable officials to invade your property and personal belongings without first persuading a judge to approve the action. Think bank accounts. Cell phone call logs. Email messages.

Mark J. Fitzgibbons argues today in LifeZette that the five conservatives on the Supreme Court had an opportunity to restrain the issuance of administrative subpoenas in Carpenter v United States, decided on June 22. Chief Justice John Roberts sided with the Court’s four liberals in ruling police must get a warrant with a showing of probable cause before enforcing an administrative subpoena. Justices Clarence Thomas, Samuel Alito, Neil Goresuch and Anthony Kennedy dissented.

Fitzgibbons explains why this decision was an opportunity lost and his reasoning and look back in history to the Common Law origins of the Fourth Amendment as the Founders understood is well worth pouring yourself a fresh cup of java and sitting down to read a lucid analysis and warning.

MEDIA LAW EXPERT SAYS U.S. JOURNALISTS SHOULD TRY REPORTING IN MEXICO: Things are a little different down south, writes media columnist Charles Glasser on the Daily Caller this morning:

“As I’ve opined in this space before, the whining and whimpering of the American press in response to President Donald Trump’s overblown ‘mean tweets’ and reflexively invoking the phrase ‘fake news’ simply do not hold a candle in comparison to the limitations and retribution faced by journalists in other countries. In Mexico, government officials don’t say mean things about you: They have you killed. And try calling Turkey’s Erdogan a Nazi sometime. The police will shut you down and jail you before the ink is even dry on your paper.”

Just keep reading cauz this guy knoweth whereof he speaketh.

NO, THE COLORADO CAKESHOP GUY AND WASHINGTON FLORIST AREN’T LIKE RED HEN OWNER: As usual, many in the MSM are getting the analogies completely wrong here. Chris Potts of the Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF) explains in this morning’s LifeZette.

WHY ARE LIBERALS ALWAYS SO VIOLENT? Great question that Craig Shirley and Scott Mauer pose today on LifeZette. “Such is the modern liberal Democratic Party, where violence trumps dialogue, where calls for the heads of politicians are more than just words, they’re actual threats,” write the Shirley/Mauer duo. Shirley is the award-winning author of the best chronicles of Ronald Reagan’s rise from Hollywood to the White House.

ANGELA MERKEL, MEET ANGELA MERKEL: Turns out the German Chancellor was against — make that really, really against — open borders multiculturalism before she decided to make her country a haven for 1.6 million immigrants, many from Islamic terrorism hot spots like Libya and Tunisia.

MODERATE GOPERS CHASING HISPANIC VOTE ILLUSION: Former Washington Times desk editor Peter Parisi lands a devastating barrage on the perennial notion that caving on basic immigration issues will win Republicans millions of new Hispanic supporters.

WE WILL ALL MISS CHARLES KRAUTHAMMER: A personal tribute.

SMUGGLERS LEAVE 6-YEAR-OLD BOY IN DESERT, BORDER PATROL SAVES HIM: So will that story be given anywhere near the same prominence in the MSM as the weeping little Honduran girl? Both are tragic, both say something important about the issues at hand, but where’s the fairness and balance in coverage?

JUDGE DOLLY GEE HOLDS FATE OF TRUMP EO IN HER HANDS: That’s the consensus among legal experts interviewed by LifeZette’s Brendan Kirby. Seems Trump and aides purposely designed the executive order to require Gee’s agreement to change a 1997 court settlement. If she refuses, the illegal immigrant kids stay in the dog cages and it’s her fault now. If she agrees, she may reopen a rotten can of worms as the ACLU and other units of the Left’s Revolution by Litigation Army files new lawsuits.

REMEMBER PETER FONDA ON HIS CHOPPER? Whatever you think of that particular enduring contribution to popular culture, Fonda got himself into hot water with an especially disgusting tweet advocating violence against the First Family. The Secret Service had some questions for him, according to LifeZette’s Zachary Leeman.

AND HERE’S FOUR IMMIGRATION FACTS THE MSM WON’T TELL YOU: No, Trump didn’t create those detention centers just to throw the children of illegal immigrants into dog cages. Who did? Can you spell O-B-A-M-A?  And three more.

DRAINING THE SWAMP STARTS WITH STOPPING THE REVOLVING DOOR: That’s the advice of Rep. Ron DeSantis in an interview with LifeZette’s Connor Wolf. Here’s a multiple choice question for you: How many former senators and representatives are now working Congress as lobbyists? 25 percent? 51 percent? 73 percent? 100 percent? This is not a trick question.

DID TRUMP OR ARGENTINA DEFEAT SOUTH CAROLINA’S REP. MARK SANFORD? Sanford was the butt of countless jokes when his affair with a woman in Argentina became a national topic of discussion a few years ago. He kept to a solidly conservative line in Congress, so between his voting record and his personal history, Sanford was far from the most visible Republican member of the House of Representatives.

So how to account for Sanford’s primary loss last Tuesday? “I’d spoken out as I had with regard to the president, and it cost me,” Sanford told “Meet the Press” host Chuck Todd Sunday. Sanford was referring to his harsh criticism of Trump’s steel and aluminum tariffs, according to LifeZette’s Brendan Kirby. Actually, that’s only part of the story, Kirby reports.

UPDATE (FROM GLENN): Link was bad before. Fixed now.

JEFF BEZOS BENEFITTING FROM CRONYISM IN DOD CONTRACTING? That’s the contention of Mona Salama in LifeZette this morning. And it’s not just on any contract, but rather a 10 year, $10 Billion award to put the Pentagon in the Cloud. If things go as expected on the award, there will also be a serious national security issue concerning China’s access to U.S. digital defenses.

THOSE “OLD SCHOOL DADS” ARE MORE VIP TODAY THAN EVER: LifeZette’s Deirdre Reilly has a moving tribute to her great father. Do not miss the video compilation of classic TV Dads giving good advice to their kids. And speaking of, Happy Father’s Day to the best father I know these days, my amazing son, Marcus McFarland Tapscott, who, with Morgan, has given me and Claudia the two most wonderful grandsons, Tyler and Brooks, and grandaughter, Beckett, ever. By the way, they had to go all the way to China to get little Beckett!

BUILD THAT WALL OR SHUT DOWN THE GOVERNMENT? That’s former Trump chief strategist Stephen Bannon’s advice on the Sunday morning news shows circuit. Give Congress till September to take credible concrete action and if they fail, close Uncle Sugar’s doors and let voters decide in November. What do you think?

NO BIAS IN THE FBI’S HILLARY EMAIL PROBE? YOU’RE KIDDING, RIGHT? There is a basic problem at the heart of the report of the Department of Justice Inspector General on the FBI’s 2016 investigation of former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s use of a private email server and address to conduct official U.S. diplomatic business.

The report provides reams of evidence that the key FBI executives running the email probe were extremely prejudiced, nay, obsessively biased against President Donald Trump and for Clinton. But the report offers zero logical explanation for why those reams don’t provide the most likely explanation for the fact the FBI gave Clinton a free pass after she demonstrated gross negligence in handling hundreds of the country’s most sensitive national security secrets.

And that’s why come Monday, IG Michael Horowitz is likely to have a very rough time of it before the Senate Judiciary Committee. And no matter how bruised and battered he may be at the day, he’ll have to face it all over again before the House Judiciary Committee on Tuesday.

HERE’S WHY MASTERPIECE DECISION IS A BIG WIN FOR FIRST AMENDMENT: Kristen Waggoner led the Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF) team of lawyers to took Colorado baker Jack Phillips’ case all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court and won. So she knows her way around the precedents and principles.

Writing in LifeZette today, Waggoner points to three key things about the decision that have hugely significant ramifications far beyond the confines of Phillips’ Lakewood, Colorado establishment, beginning with the court’s declaration that religious and philosophical objections to gay marriage are constitutionally protected.

If that was all the decision said, it would still be a big deal. But the other two elements to which Waggoner points are of even greater importance. Go here to find out why.

BILL, PLEASE JUST APOLOGIZE TO HER FACE AND THEN, FOR GOD’S SAKE, SHUT UP: That’s the growing chorus among worried Democrats, according to LifeZette’s Kathryn Blackhurst. Wonder what Nina Burleigh thinks about all this now?

STARBUCKS PREZ HAS LATTE LUST FOR WHITE HOUSE: It appears Starbucks luminary Howard Schultz is leaving the omnipresent java proprietor after 36 years and hinting of a possible run for president, according to LifeZette’s Zachary Leeman. But maybe there’s another explanation, something having to do with distracting attention from the firm’s recent controversy over racial sensitivity training as a yet-unreported backlash gathers steam? Keep an eye on upcoming corporate quarterly reports. Just sayin.’