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The Senate confirmed Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court as an associate justice on October 6, by a vote of 50–48. [3] [200] One senator, Republican Steve Daines, who supported the nomination, was absent during the vote due to his attendance that day at his daughter's wedding in Montana.
On October 6, the full Senate confirmed Kavanaugh by a vote of 50–48. [14] [15] Since the death of Ruth Bader Ginsburg in 2020, Kavanaugh has come to be regarded as a swing vote on the Court. [16] [17] He was the target of an assassination plot in June 2022; the suspect had hoped to disrupt the rulings in Dobbs and Bruen. [18]
In early July 2018, Trump nominated Brett Kavanaugh as his replacement; Kavanaugh was confirmed on October 6, 2018. Following the death of Associate Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg on September 18, 2020, Trump nominated Amy Coney Barrett as her replacement on September 26, 2020. Exactly a month later on October 26, 2020, Barrett was confirmed by a ...
As women bellowed objections from the Senate galleries Saturday and protesters chanted slogans in front of the Supreme Court, senators confirmed Brett M. Kavanaugh to a lifetime appointment to the ...
Kavanaugh was confirmed on a nearly party-line vote of 50-48, with Sen. Joe Manchin of West Virginia the only Democrat joining Republicans supporting him. Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, voted present.
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The last justice to be confirmed by a unanimous vote was Anthony Kennedy, 97–0, in 1988; the last to receive a two-thirds majority was Sonia Sotomayor, 68–31, in 2009. [77] The Senate voted to confirm Brett Kavanaugh in 2018 by a razor-thin 50–48–1 (51.02% favorable) margin that broke along party lines.
Following weeks of protests, and several credible allegations of sexual assault, Brett Kavanaugh was confirmed as the Supreme Court’s newest Associate Justice today.