Article snippet: The Senate will take a pivotal vote Friday on Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh, as the battle over MORE’s pick enters its final chapter. Four senators –– three Republicans and a Democrat –– remained undecided on Thursday, though two of them signaled a sense of satisfaction with the FBI’s investigation of sexual assault allegations that threatened to torpedo Kavanaugh’s nomination. Senate Republican leaders plan to hold a key procedural vote Saturday afternoon. Friday's cloture vote is scheduled to happen at 10:30 a.m. Sen. MORE (N.D.), one of the most vulnerable Democrats up for reelection this year, said Thursday she would be voting “no” on Kavanaugh, making her the penultimate Senate Democrat to announce her position. Sen. MORE (Maine), one of the three undecided GOP senators, is expected to announce her position on Friday morning. If senators vote Friday to advance Kavanaugh’s nomination, as expected, they will have to allow another 30 hours for procedural debate, putting the final vote in mid-afternoon the following day. Saturday’s vote will cap three months of bitter fighting over the most contested Supreme Court nominee since Justice Clarence Thomas faced sexual harassment accusations in 1991. Kavanaugh’s confirmation process was wracked by political warfare even before Christine Blasey Ford, a psychology professor at Palo Alto University, accused him of assaulting her at a party in the early 1980s when they were both in high school. Democrats slammed ... Link to the full article to read more