Good morning. I'm Allison Michaels with the Washington Post and this is the Daily 202 for Monday, October 8th.

James is on vacation, but I'll be here instead with the day's top headlines.

Number one, the Senate confirmed Brett Kavanaugh as the 114th Supreme Court

Justice on Saturday by one of the narrowest margins in history and amid mass

protests.

His confirmation ended a battle over his nomination

and solidified a conservative majority on the court.

The Senate finalized his confirmation on a near party line vote of 50 to 48.

Kavanaugh's appointment to the court will certainly be one of the president's most enduring

legacies.

Two Supreme Court justices in two years in an increasingly

polarized nation.

The brutal confirmation fight is likely to have far-reaching implications in next month's midterm elections.

Republicans are confronting an electrified Democratic base led by women infuriated by the

treatment of Christine Blasy Ford.

Ford detailed in emotional testimony

her allegations that Kavanaugh sexually assaulted her

when both were teenagers.

Kavanaugh has denied the allegations. Yet Republicans say the battle to get Kavanaugh confirmed only motivated a fractured

GOP electorate on a singularly unifying issues for conservatives, the federal judiciary.

Number two, hours after casting his vote against confirming Justice Kavanaugh to the Supreme

Court, Senator Corey Booker was looking out at Iowa Democrats.

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