This article is from Politico by Andrew Desiderio:

The Senate on Monday voted to confirm Amy Coney Barrett to the Supreme Court, handing President Donald Trump a sorely needed win just eight days before the election and solidifying a conservative majority on the high court for a generation.

Monday’s vote capped a 30-day sprint that has driven the Senate even deeper into the bitter partisanship that has defined the institution over the past two decades, prompting vague threats of retribution if Democrats take control of the chamber after the Nov. 3 election.

Trump nominated Barrett exactly one month ago, and Republicans quickly coalesced around Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell’s push to confirm the 48-year-old federal judge to the high court, largely steamrolling Democrats’ demands to delay her confirmation until after the election — resulting in the first Supreme Court confirmation with only one-party support since the 19th century.

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