translated from Spanish: United States Senate confirms Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court

the Senate of United States confirmed Saturday to Brett Kavanaugh as a member of the Supreme Court, which granted a triumph in election period to President Donal Trump that could sway the right to the highest court of the nation after a battle that exposed the divisions of cultural, political and gender in the country. Kavanaugh was confirmed 50-48 during a historic vote in the plenum of a deeply polarized Senate. The difference by two votes is one of the lowest in history for a candidate for the Supreme Court. The vote unfolded amid slogans thrown by demonstrators from the grandstands of the room. The vote puts an end to an acrimonious battle for the nomination of Kavanaugh, intensified by accusations that sexually abused women in the Decade of 1980, something that the jurist flatly refused in testimony under oath. In press conference, the leader of the majority in the Senate, Mitch McConnell, said that the Chamber “rose in defense of the presumption of innocence” to confirm Kavanaugh and highlighted that placing Kavanaugh in court “was a matter of treating someone with impartiality “. McConnell called to the voted “a good day for the United States” and predicted that the electorate will reward the Republicans that in term mid-term elections. It was considered that the battle for confirmation of Kavanaugh “became our base of fire”. Through a press release, the Supreme Court said that its President, John Roberts, will lead the constitutional oath, while the judge Anthony M. Kennedy retreat will take care of the process of judicial oath at a ceremony in private at the Supreme Court. Both oaths shall be to Kavanaugh may begin to participate in the work of the Supreme Court immediately. An official inauguration ceremony will take place at a later date.

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