The U.S. Senate voted Sunday afternoon to end debate on the nomination of Judge Amy Coney Barrett to the Supreme Court, setting the stage for a final confirmation vote Monday evening — just over a week before the general election.
In a floor vote mostly along party lines, 51 Republicans advanced Barrett, who’s President Trump’s nominee to fill the seat of the late Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg.
Following the cloture vote, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., proclaimed that “by tomorrow night, we’ll have a new member of the United States Supreme Court.”
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