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Newshour: Trump Supreme Court Pick Faces Senate

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Trump Supreme Court Pick Faces Senate

04/09/2018 GMT

BBC World Service - Newshour, Trump Supreme Court Pick Faces Senate

Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh will face four days of questioning by senators

President Donald Trump's nominee for the vacant Supreme Court seat, Brett Kavanaugh, is set to face four days of Senate hearings. But now that the votes of a simple majority of senators is enough to confirm a Supreme Court Justice for life, is the body becoming more political?

Also in the programme: the Afghan Taliban reports the death of the former militant leader Jalaluddin Haqqani; and Nike recruits American footballer Colin Kaepernick to front its advertising campaign, despite controversy over his kneeling for the national anthem in protest over police shootings.

Picture: Brett Kavanaugh. Credit: Reuters.

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