⁍ The White House planned a Monday night celebration of the Republican Senate’s expected confirmation of Amy Coney Barrett to the U.S. Supreme Court.

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

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⁍ A similar event was linked to a COVID-19 outbreak that preceded President Donald Trump’s own infection.

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– The confirmation of Amy Coney Barrett as the third Supreme Court justice of President Trump’s tenure appears all but certain Monday night. The Senate is expected to vote 53-47 along party lines to confirm the 48-year-old federal appeals court judge, who was named to replace the late Ruth Bader Ginsburg on Sept. 26, reports the AP. The move is all but certain to please Trump, who has been pressuring the Senate to confirm Barrett before the Nov. 3 election to give the court a conservative majority for the first time since the 1960s, reports Reuters. During her confirmation hearing, Barrett, a favorite of Christian conservatives, sidestepped questions on abortion, presidential powers, climate change, voting rights, ObamaCare, and other issues. “Judge Barrett 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,” Sen. Dianne Feinstein, a Democrat on the Senate Judiciary Committee, said on the Senate floor Sunday, per the Washington Post. “Cementing a conservative majority on the court is not worth such a price.”