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Brett Kavanaugh Confirmed to the Supreme Court of the United States

posted by takyon on Saturday October 06 2018, @08:10PM   Printer-friendly
from the let-'er-rip dept.

Brett Kavanaugh has been confirmed as an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States. The vote was 50-48 in favor of Kavanaugh.

Senators Collins, Flake, and Manchin had already announced their intentions to confirm Kavanaugh before the vote was held. Senator Lisa Murkowski, who was previously ready to vote "no", agreed to vote "present" instead so that Senator Steve Daines could attend his daughter's wedding instead of being present in the Senate to support Kavanaugh.

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  • (Score: 2) by Reziac on Sunday October 07 2018, @05:14AM (1 child)

    by Reziac (2489) on Sunday October 07 2018, @05:14AM (#745389) Homepage

    "Give me six lines written by the most honest man, and I will find something there to hang him. "
    -- attrib. Cardinal Richelieu (1585-1642)

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    And there is no Alkibiades to come back and save us from ourselves.
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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday October 07 2018, @09:55AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Sunday October 07 2018, @09:55AM (#745435)

    Kind of like having a Star Chamber in Elizabethan times, or a Ken Starr chamber, for whom Kavanaugh worked as a partisan Republican operative while being a member of the Federalist Society and PROBably Opus Dei.