⁍ Republicans hold a 53-47 Senate majority and Amy Coney Barrett’s confirmation seems assured.

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⁍ Democrats have fiercely opposed the conservative jurist’s nomination.

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⁍ President Donald Trump pressed the Senate to confirm Barrett before the Nov. 3 election.

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⁍ No nominee to the Supreme Court has ever been confirmed by the Senate this close to a presidential election.

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– President Trump’s Supreme Court nominee is expected to be confirmed by the Senate on Monday—and the White House is celebrating. Reuters reports the Senate is set to vote 53-47 on the confirmation of Amy Coney Barrett, a 48-year-old federal appeals court judge who was Trump’s first choice to replace the late Ruth Bader Ginsburg. The president’s fellow Republicans hold a 53-47 majority in the Senate, and Barrett’s confirmation will create a 6-3 conservative majority on the Supreme Court. “Tonight, we’ll be doing the best we can to encourage as much social distancing as possible,” White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows says. Democrats have been fiercely opposed to Barrett, with Sen. Dianne Feinstein saying she “represents a threat to the very rights—including reproductive rights, rights of LGBT individuals, and voting rights—that Justice Ginsburg worked so hard to protect.” The New York Times reports Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell is expected to preside over Monday’s vote. Vice President Mike Pence is also expected to be in the Senate chamber for the vote. Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer says Pence “reportedly intends to come’ to the Senate chamber to preside over the final vote, and blasted the vice president for being willing to put ‘the health of everyone who works in this building at risk.'” Pence’s son-in-law, Jared Kushner, tells Fox News that Pence “knows the right protocols to follow, and I have every confidence that he’s following those protocols.”