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Kavanaugh confirmed to US Supreme Court amid protests

Published:Saturday | October 6, 2018 | 12:00 AM
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Activists chant as they are arrested by Capitol Hill Police officers after occupying the steps on the East Front of the US Capitol as they protested the confirmation vote of Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh, yesterday.
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The United States Senate yesterday confirmed Brett Kavanaugh as an associate justice of the Supreme Court, putting a second nominee from President Donald Trump on the highest court in the land.

Kavanaugh was confirmed 50-48 yesterday in a historic roll-call vote in the Senate chamber. The two-vote margin is one of the narrowest ever for a US Supreme Court nominee. The vote unfolded with protesters shouting from the gallery.

The vote closes out a bitter struggle over Kavanaugh's nomination, inflamed by accusations that he sexually assaulted women in the 1980s.

Kavanaugh forcefully denied the accusations in sworn testimony.