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The urgency of this #MeToo moment, especially its potential disruption of normative social behavior toward women, has led to the challenging of inter-communal attitudes including those expressed by religious institutions. Congregants from diverse establishments of faith, including Christians and Jews , have come out in opposition of not only the repression of sexual abuse victims but against clerical power structures.
President Donald Trump used a ceremonial swearing of Justice Brett Kavanaugh on Monday to apologize for the "pain and suffering" the president said his family had endured during his Senate confirmation. Without directly mentioning the allegations of sexual assault that stalled Kavanaugh's confirmation for weeks, Trump said he thought his second nominee to the Supreme Court deserved better than the "campaign of political and personal" attacks the president said he faced.
Brett Kavanaugh took the bench with his new Supreme Court colleagues for the first time Tuesday in a jovial atmosphere that was strikingly at odds with the tension and rancor surrounding his high court confirmation. The new justice dived into his new job, asking a handful of questions in the first arguments of the day following a traditional welcome from Chief Justice John Roberts, who wishing Kavanaugh "a long and happy career in our common calling."
He was standing right there, to one side of new Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh and slightly behind the left shoulder of President Donald Trump. Anthony Kennedy was right in the thick of it.
A Supreme Court with a new conservative majority takes the bench as Brett Kavanaugh, narrowly confirmed after a bitter Senate battle, joins his new colleagues to hear his first arguments as a justice. Kavanaugh will emerge Tuesday morning from behind the courtroom's red velvet curtains and take his seat alongside his eight colleagues.
As newly-confirmed Judge Brett Kavanaugh arrives at the Supreme Court to be sworn in as an associate justice, he was met by hundreds of protesters demonstrating on the steps of the building.
New Justice Brett Kavanaugh says the Supreme Court "is not a partisan or political institution," and is promising to "always be a team player on a team of nine." The Senate vote approving Kavanaugh's nomination followed a bitter partisan fight that became a firestorm after sexual misconduct allegations emerged.
Pay attention, Democrats. Watch what Republicans are doing. You'll see what raw power looks like - and understand why winning in November is so vital for the nation's future.
The moment conservatives have dreamed about for decades has arrived with Brett Kavanaugh joining the Supreme Court. But with it comes the shadow of a bitter confirmation fight that is likely to hang over the court as it takes on divisive issues, especially those dealing with politics and women's rights.
The U.S. Senate narrowly voted Friday to limit debate on the nomination of President Donald Trump's embattled Supreme Court pick, Brett Kavanaugh, advancing his nomination to a final confirmation vote that could come as early as Saturday. The procedural vote, an institutional matter unrelated to how Senators will eventually vote on Kavanaugh, allows up to 30 hours of Senate debate before holding a final vote.
Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan expressed concern Friday over the court's lack of a swing vote with Justice Anthony Kennedy's departure from the bench. "In the last, really 30 years, starting with Justice O'Connor and continuing with Justice Kennedy, there has been a person who found the center or people couldn't predict in that sort of way.
Brett Kavanaugh, President Donald Trump's second Supreme Court nominee in two years, was officially sworn in on Saturday, shortly after the Senate narrowly confirmed him by a vote of 50 to 48 amid fierce partisan fights focusing on sexual misconduct allegations against him. The 53-year-old conservative was sworn in as 114th Supreme Court justice by Chief Justice John Roberts Jr. and retired Justice Anthony Kennedy in a private ceremony at the Supreme Court.
Hours after his Supreme Court pick was sworn in Saturday, President Donald Trump said on Fox News that those who made up "false" stories about Brett Kavanaugh should be penalized. Trump, talking with Fox News' Jeanine Pirro, said he hated watching the slew of sexual assault allegations grow against Kavanaugh and dubbed all the accusations "fabrications" with "not a bit of truth."
Supreme Court nominee Judge Brett Kavanaugh, left, President Donald Trump's choice to replace retiring Justice Anthony Kennedy, meets with Sen. Richard C. Shelby, R-Ala., chairman of the Senate Appropriations Committee, on Capitol Hill in Washington, Monday, July 30, 2018. t is evident that the accusations against Judge Kavanaugh are uncorroborated, and there is no confirmation of any of the alleged misconduct."
AUGUST 21: Supreme Court Nominee Brett Kavanaugh walks to a meeting with Sen. Susan Collins in her office on Capitol Hill on August 21, 2018 in Washington, DC. The confirmation hearing for Judge Kavanaugh is set to begin September 4. WASHINGTON, DC - AUGUST 21: Supreme Court Nominee Brett Kavanaugh walks to a meeting with Sen. Susan Collins in her office on Capitol Hill on August 21, 2018 in Washington, DC.