Washington, Oct 27,2020 : A divided US Senate voted mostly along party line to confirm Judge Amy Coney Barrett, President Donald Trump’s nominee, to the Supreme Court, succeeding late Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg.
With 52 votes in favor and 48 against, the Republican-controlled Senate’s confirmation of the 48-year-old conservative judge to the high court drew opposition from all of the Democratic members in the chamber on Monday.
Susan Collins, Republican senator from Maine who faces a tough reelection battle, was the only GOP senator who crossed the political aisle to side with the Democrats.
The confirmation made Barrett, a devout Catholic and longtime law professor at Notre Dame University, the 115th justice of the Supreme Court and the fifth woman ever to sit on the bench.
Shortly after the Senate vote, Justice Clarence Thomas administered Barrett’s Constitutional oath during a nighttime ceremony at the White House South Lawn presided over by Trump.
