From CNN Breaking News@VERT to no-reply@siteservices.cnn.com on Fri Apr 7 09:29:54 2017
The Senate has confirmed President Trump's nominee, Neil Gorsuch, to the Supreme Court[1]. The 49-year-old federal judge could help cement a conservative majority on the bench for decades.
The vote was mostly along party lines. Only three Democrats ÿ-- Sens. Joe Manchin, Heidi Heitkamp and Joe Donnelly -- sided with the GOP majority.
The court has been operating with eight justices since the sudden death in February 2016 of Justice Antonin Scalia and a protracted fight over President Obama's nominee, Judge Merrick Garland.
Gorsuch is scheduled to be sworn in on Monday morning.
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