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He believes the six-week ban would be so dramatic that even the supreme court would vote 5-4 to strike it down, even if another conservative justice were confirmed to replace the vacancy on the court.

Kavanaugh will almost certainly be confirmed to replace the court's nominal swing voter Anthony Kennedy, who announced his retirement this summer.

Because Trump won, Neil M. Gorsuch was confirmed to replace Scalia, securing the court's 5-to-4 conservative majority.

"And that's actually what makes this agency amazing," says Klee, who earlier this year was confirmed to replace Esty as the DEEP commissioner after Esty returned to teaching at Yale. "On any given day, the priority could be mountain lions from South Dakota.

Senator Mitch McConnell, the Republican leader, told President Trump this past week that Judges Raymond M. Kethledge and Thomas M. Hardiman presented the fewest obvious obstacles to being confirmed to replace Justice Anthony M. Kennedy on the Supreme Court, according to Republican officials briefed on the conversation.

Watt, a former Democratic congressman from North Carolina, was confirmed to replace DeMarco after Senate Democrats changed the rules to make filibustering presidential nominees more difficult.

Bonham Carter is "all but confirmed" to replace actress Vanessa Kirby, who delivered a standout performance this past season as the youngest daughter of King George VI. .

Once a nominee is confirmed to replace Justice Scalia, Justice Kagan will be relieved of a task assigned to the junior justice: answering the door when there is a knock during their private conferences.

Last month, Israel confirmed plans to replace the fence with a five-metre-high wall for half-a-mile stretch around the town of Metula, which is situated on a finger of Israeli territory and surrounded by Lebanon on three sides.

The justice ministry confirmed ministers' intention to replace the current complex IPP system with a new regime of determinate sentences: "This will see more dangerous criminals given life sentences, and others spending longer periods in prison, with tough licence conditions on release".

The bill would apply to any interim U.S. attorneys who have not been confirmed, including those appointed to replace the seven prosecutors who have been fired since the Patriot Act reauthorization went into effect, according to a spokeswoman for Judiciary Committee Chairman Patrick Leahy, D-Vt.