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US Senate Leans toward Kavanaugh

06/10/2018 GMT

BBC World Service - Weekend, US Senate Leans toward Kavanaugh

Trump nominee gets closer to be voted onto Supreme Court

Trump nominee gets closer to be voted onto Supreme Court.

Republican Senators Susan Collins and Jeff Flake and also Democrat Joe Manchin, all indicated on Friday that they would back Judge Brett Kavanaugh for the Supreme Court. His confirmation would tilt America's highest court in favour of conservatives.

Also in the programme: Russia’s spying apparatus; and the faces of the future in Britain’s fashion magazines.

(Image: Judge Brett Kavanaugh testifies during the Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on his nomination on 27th September 2018. Credit: Tom Williams-Pool/Getty Images)

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