⁍ The Republican-led U.S. Senate handed President Donald Trump a major pre-election political victory.

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⁍ The Senate voted largely along party lines to confirm Amy Coney Barrett to a lifetime post.

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⁍ Barrett’s addition cements one of the most right-leaning Supreme Court rosters in generations.

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⁍ The shifting of the Supreme Court and the broader federal judiciary to the right has been a signature achievement of Trump’s presidency.

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– The Senate has confirmed Amy Coney Barrett as the newest member of the Supreme Court, a move that makes her one of the most right-leaning justices in decades, reports Reuters. The move is a major victory for President Trump and for Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, who saw Barrett’s nomination as a way to continue the GOP’s “shifting of the Supreme Court and the broader federal judiciary to the right,” notes the New York Times. Barrett, who serves on the Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, is Trump’s third Supreme Court pick.