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On July 9, 2018, President Donald Trump nominated Brett Kavanaugh for Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States to succeed retiring Justice Anthony Kennedy. When nominated, Kavanaugh was a judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, a position he was appointed to in 2006 by President ...
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The timeline below shows the most significant events that played out leading up to Kavanaugh's confirmation. For the full timeline, visit Timeline of events related to the Supreme Court vacancy, 2018. 1. October 6, 2018: The Senate voted 50-48-1 to confirm Brett Kavanaugh as the 114th associate justice on the U.S. Supreme Court. Sen. Joe Manchin (D...
Democrats and Republicans disagreed on the number of documents, as well as which ones, should be released prior to Kavanaugh's confirmation hearings. Click hereto learn more.
Brett Kavanaugh needed a simple majority from a Senate vote to be confirmed to the U.S. Supreme Court. Republicans had a 51-49 majority in the Senate when he was confirmed. The section below curates the reactions and statements of senators in key leadership positions or who were mentioned by media outlets as potential swing votes.
Quinnipiac poll
Quinnipiac University released a poll on October 1, 2018, which found that 48 percent of U.S. voters would not vote to confirm Kavanaugh, 42 percent would vote to confirm him, and 9 percentdid not know. Participants were asked the question: "As you may know, President Trump has nominated Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court. Do you think the U.S. Senate should confirm Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court, or not?" The poll was conducted September 27-30, 2018, among a sample of 1,111 voters ac...
Fox News poll
A Fox News poll released on September 23, 2018, found that 43 percent of respondents would vote to confirm Kavanaugh, 50 percent would not vote to confirm him, and 7 percentdid not know. Participants were asked the question: "President Trump nominated Brett Kavanaugh to serve on the U.S. Supreme Court. If you were voting on Kavanaugh’s nomination, would you vote to confirm him or not?" The poll was conducted by telephone September 16 to 19, 2018, among a random national sample of 1,003 regist...
USA Today/Ipsos Public Affairs poll
A poll conducted for USA Today by Ipsos Public Affairs found that 40 percent of Americans were opposed to Kavanaugh's confirmation and 31 percentwere in favor of his confirmation. The poll was conducted September 19-20 among 1,008 American adults. The poll was conducted online. A margin of error was not available.
Millions of dollars were spent by satellite groups during the confirmation process both supporting and opposing Kavanaugh. The Judicial Crisis Network led those supporting the confirmation; it had spent $5.3 million on ad buys and a website launch as of August 2018. Leading the groups opposing Kavanaugh's confirmation was Demand Justice, which pled...
McConnell warns of delay in nomination vote
Politico reported on July 20 that Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R) told senior Republicans he was prepared to delay the confirmation vote for Kavanaugh until just before the midterm elections if Democrats continued to push for the release of records on Kavanaugh. The vote delay would serve two purposes, according to Politico:it would keep "vulnerable red-state Democrats off the campaign trail while potentially forcing anti-Kavanaugh liberals to swallow a demoralizing defeat just ahe...
Ads highlighting SCOTUS vacancy appear in general and primary election battlegrounds
Sens. Claire McCaskill (Mo.) and Bill Nelson (Fla.), two Democratic incumbents in states that backed Donald Trump in 2016, faced pressure on their future confirmation vote of Brett Kavanaughfor the U.S. Supreme Court. “The eyes of a nation are on our Missouri. We decide which values control the Senate and the Supreme Court,” Missouri Attorney General Josh Hawley (R) said in a $500,000 ad campaign released July 9, 2018. “Claire McCaskill wants liberals in charge. That's how she votes. That's n...
Republican National Committee targets ten key states during midterms
The Republican National Committee (RNC) began a program focusing on the confirmation of Kavanaugh in ten key states during the 2018 midterm elections. The effort would be "an extensive field program, digital ads and op-eds," according to CNN, and would target Democratic senators up for re-election in states won by Donald Trumpin 2016. The RNC allocated $250 million toward the midterm elections. "We have the largest field program we've ever had, and we're using it to take Judge Kavanaugh's con...
Ballotpedia curated the following reactions to the nomination of Brett Kavanaugh to succeed Anthony Kennedy on the U.S. Supreme Court.
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Oct 6, 2018 · The Senate voted 50-48 to confirm Kavanaugh to the highest court in the land, a relatively anticlimactic finale to one of the most contentious Supreme Court confirmation fights in recent...
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Oct 6, 2018 · Brett Kavanaugh appeared to be a lock for the Supreme Court for much of the summer before his nomination was thrown into question last month by allegations of sexual misconduct going back...
Oct 6, 2018 · WASHINGTON — Brett Kavanaugh was sworn in Saturday evening as an associate justice to the U.S. Supreme Court. The swearing-in came hours after the Senate on Saturday afternoon narrowly...
Oct 7, 2018 · The US Senate has voted to confirm judge Brett Kavanaugh to the supreme court, handing Donald Trump a major victory and America a bench expected to tilt to the right for the next...
Brett Michael Kavanaugh ( / ˈkævənɔː /; born February 12, 1965) is an American lawyer and jurist serving as an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States. He was nominated by President Donald Trump on July 9, 2018, and has served since October 6, 2018.
