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US Senate to decide Kavanaugh’s fate on Saturday
The nominee of President Donald Trump for the vacant Supreme Court seat, Brett Kavanaugh will know his fate on Saturday, as the US Senate is set to vote on his nomination on Saturday.
Though a too close to call vote is expected, Kavanaugh’s chances at confirmation brightened as Republicans brushed aside a new FBI probe into sexual allegations against him, saying the report did not reveal anything they did not already know.
Democrats, on the other hand, dismissed the report as rushed and incomplete.
According to a new Senate rule approved last year, 50 votes are needed to confirm the nominee. Republicans hold a 51-49 majority in the chamber but three of their members are seen as undecided on Kavanaugh.
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The confirmation vote is expected around 10:30 am (1430 GMT).
There has been growing opposition to Kavanaugh’s nomination to the Supreme Court, with more than 2,400 law professors signing a letter opposing it, the New York Times reports.
According to them, the nominee did not “did not display the impartiality and judicial temperament” required for the Supreme Court.
The nominee however defended himself in an opinion he published in Wall Street Journal, with the headline “I am an independent, impartial judge.”
He wrote: “I know that my tone was sharp, and I said a few things I should not have said, Kavanaugh wrote, arguing he was “forceful and passionate” in denying the allegations against him.
“I do not decide cases based on personal or policy preferences,” he added, saying the country’s top court “must never be viewed as a partisan institution.”
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