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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. |