• Democrats and liberal advocacy organizations face enormous challenges if they hope to prevent President Trump from installing a conservative justice.
• Many vowed to fight like they have not in years in the hopes of preserving decades of liberal court precedents.

Justice Anthony M. Kennedy has been seen as the deciding force on a polarized Supreme Court who weighed in at key moments to preserve the core of Roe.

For many conservatives, the chance to replace the centrist justice amounts to a kind of judicial grand prize. For liberals, the departure was almost too much to bear.

Japanese-Americans who lived through internment camps in the 1940s lamented that it came as part of an order upholding Mr. Trump’s travel ban.

As Judiciary Committee Republicans battered the deputy attorney general, Rod J. Rosenstein, a House Republican resolution intensified the war on the Russia investigation.

The results of local races, including Ms. Ocasio-Cortez’s win, reveal a coalition fueled by the same economic anxieties that supposedly drove Trump voters.

Our Politics editor, Patrick Healy, answered readers’ questions on The Times’s political coverage and plans for the midterm and 2020 elections.

England and Belgium have a largely meaningless match on Thursday, since both have clinched advancement. Will they meet again in the World Cup final?