Wake Up Call: Covington & Burling’s Jon Kyl to Take McCain’s Senate Seat

• Covington & Burling seniorof counsel, and former Senator Jon Kyl was picked by Arizona’s governor to temporarily fill John McCain’s seat in the Senate, at least until year’s end. Kyl, a Republican who retired from the Senate in 2013, is a lobbyist who has been acting in recent weeks as the top liaison to the Senate on behalf of U.S. Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh. Kyl’s return to the Senate boosts the chances Kavanaugh will be confirmed. ( Bloomberg )

• Closing a raucous first day of his confirmation hearings, Kavanaugh told the Senate Judicary Committee the Supreme Court “must ...