Trump says Brett Kavanaugh was ‘proven innocent’ in confirmation battle during swearing-in ceremony

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.

McConnell now open to Supreme Court nomination in election year

The Senate's majority leader, insisting his chamber won't be irreparably damaged by the bitter fight over new Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh, is signaling he's willing to take up another high court nomination in the 2020 presidential election season should another vacancy arise. Heading into pivotal midterm elections, McConnell tried to distinguish between President Donald Trump's nomination of Kavanaugh this year and his own decision not to have the GOP-run Senate consider President Barack Obama's high court nominee, Merrick Garland, in 2016.

Trump and McConnell are a political odd couple who share one important goal

The ultimately successful, if extremely messy, Senate confirmation of Judge Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court is the unlikely and intriguing outcome of two disparate men invisibly working together, though they could hardly be more different - President Donald Trump and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell. McConnell was born in Alabama, raised in Kentucky and thanks to the demanding therapy of his mother, overcame the crippling physical restrictions of childhood polio so well he became a formidable baseball player.

Court Mood is Jovial as Kavanaugh Takes His Place on Bench

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."

Fox News draws a big audience for final Kavanaugh vote

The Senate's vote confirming Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh sent viewers flocking to Fox News Channel, which recorded its biggest Saturday audience in more than a decade. Fox's daytime audience was bigger than any for the network since Hurricane Katrina in 2005, while its Saturday prime-time lineup eclipsed anything since the Iraq War in 2003, the Nielsen company said.

Emily Ratajkowski Says She Was Kicked Out of School Dance at Age 13 for Dressing “Too Sexy”

Shortly after an arrest for protesting the vote of Brett Kavanaugh onto the U.S. Supreme Court this past weekend, the 27-year-old shares her story in an interview with Emily was raised in a family an environment that she says taught women to appreciate their own bodies. Frequenting Spanish beaches where women were topless, more often than not, Emily shares that nudity was unremarkable for her family and that it wasn't "always about sex."

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U.S. Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh shakes hands with President Donald Trump during Kavanaugh's ceremonial swearing in in the East Room of the White House October 08, 2018 in Washington, DC. In her lengthy speech explaining for vote to seat Brett Kavanaugh on the Supreme Court, Senator Susan Collins emphasized the high evidentiary standard she required to disqualify a justice she had previously supported over allegations of sexual assault.

Conservative majority takes control of Supreme Court

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.

Trump apologises to Kavanaugh during swearing-in ceremony

US Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh has been sworn in at a White House ceremony, but not before President Donald Trump criticised Mr Kavanaugh's opponents for a "campaign of personal destruction". In a ceremony that could have been a unifying moment for the nation, Mr Trump instead delivered remarks that even he acknowledged began "differently than perhaps any other event of such magnitude".