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Battle begins over Trump's Supreme Court pick

Kavanaugh's job-for-life appointment would effectively lock down a conservative majority on the US Supreme Court

Lawmakers fired the opening shots Tuesday in a bitter political battle to confirm Brett Kavanaugh, the conservative judge tapped by President Donald Trump to fill a vacancy on the US Supreme Court.

If confirmed by the Senate, Kavanaugh would help cement a rightward tilt on America's top court, potentially shaping many aspects of US society for decades to come, including women's access to abortions.

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