A.M. Links: Democrats Target Supreme Court, Obama Sending More Troops to Iraq, Bodies of Kidnapped Israeli Teenagers Found

Democrats think they have a winner in
running against the
Supreme Court this November.
President Obama told Congress he would be sending about 200
more troops to
Iraq. The Council of
Representatives, Iraq’s parliament, will meet for its first
session since elections in April, while the Islamic State in Iraq
and Syria is showing off scud missiles in its possession in
Syria.
The bodies of three Israeli teenagers kidnapped in June were
found north of
Hebron. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu called the
perpetrators “animals” and said Hamas would pay.
The president of
Ukraine said he was abandoning a unilateral ceasefire with
pro-Russian separatists in the east of the country and sending the
military back in.
The ruling coalition in
Japan plans on reinterpreting the country’s constitution to
permit a larger role for the military.
Google announced it was shutting down
Orkut, a social networking site popular in Brazil and
India.