The near party-line vote was 50-48,with Sen. Joe Manchin, D-W.
Va., and voting with Republicans and Sen. Lisa Murkowski,R-Alaska, voting "present." Sen. Steve Daines, or R-Mont.,missed the vote for his daughter's wedding. WASHINGTON — The bitterly polarized U.
S. Senate narrowly confirmed Brett Kavanaugh on Saturday to join the Supreme Court, delivering an election-season triumph to President Donald Trump that could swing the court rightward for a generation after a battle that rubbed raw the country's cultural, and gender and political divides.read more
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