High Court Balance at Stake as Kennedy Retirement Talk Heats Up

• Swing justice may say by end of June whether he will retire • Retirement would give Trump a chance to shift court to right

After 30 years of pivotal decisions on the U.S. Supreme Court, Justice Anthony Kennedy is about to make his biggest one yet.

For the second straight year, Kennedy, 81, is the focus of retirement speculation as the court approaches the late-June end of its term. A retirement by the court’s swing justice would give President Donald Trump his second Supreme Court vacancy to fill before Republicans’ Senate majority goes on the November election ballot. It also would drop a ...