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Brett Kavanaugh has been confirmed as the newest Associate Justice of the Supreme Court on October 6, 2018. The vote was:

50-48

What was this?

SCOTUS Watch tracked the public statements made by United States senators about how they planned to vote on the Supreme Court nominee,, and tallied them into a likely vote count. This tally was basedon their statements: we did not make estimates or guesses based on a senator's party affiliation or ideology.

Note that this only included statements made by senators after the identity of the nominee was announced. (So, for example, Senator Doug Jones' statement to CNN on Sunday, July 8th did not count, as Brett Kavanaugh had not yet been announced.)

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507 statements to date (HTML | JSON)

(Statements last updated October 6, 2018 04:02 PM -04:00.)

Nominee needs at least 50 votes*

Definitely Yes - 51 👍

51

Definitely No - 49 👎

49

* Although his statements are included on this site, Senator John McCain died on August 25, 2018 and thus he is excluded from the voting intention tallies. His successor, former Arizona senator Jon Kyl, was sworn in on Wednesday, September 5th, 2018. Given his role as Brett Kavanaugh's confirmation 'sherpa', Jon Kyl is considered a likely or definite yes vote for confirmation. Therefore, Brett Kavanaugh will need either a minimum of 50 senators to vote yea, with Vice President Mike Pence casting a tiebreaking vote, or a clean 51-vote majority.