As the start of summer brought several landmark Supreme Court rulings that jerked the law to the right, across the street, the Democratic-controlled Senate was confirming judicial nominees whose progressive legal backgrounds served as a foil to the direction the conservative justices were heading.
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Vice President Harris matched the record for casting the most tiebreaking votes of any vice president in Senate history Wednesday. Harris broke a 50-50 tie on a vote to advance the nomination of Kalpana Kotagal to serve as a member of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, bringing her total of tiebreaking votes cast as…
US Vice President Kamala Harris tied a 191-year-old record by casting her 31st tie-breaking vote to break the 50-50 Senate deadlock on the nomination of Indian-origin Kalpana Kotagal, to be a member of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. Harris matched the record held by Democratic-Republican John C Calhoun, vice president to John Quincy Adams and Andrew Jackson.
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