WASHINGTON (AP) — Amy Coney Barrett is headed to the Supreme Court. The Senate has confirmed President Donald Trump’s nominee by a 52-48 vote, with Republicans overpowering Democratic opposition a week before Election Day. Trump held a primetime swearing-in event at the White House and called it “a momentous day for America.” Barrett will be the third Supreme Court justice nominated by Trump, and she will be able to start work Tuesday. At 48, she is likely secure a conservative court majority for years to come. Barrett will fill the vacancy left by the late Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, the liberal icon who died last month.

WASHINGTON (AP) — This time they mostly wore masks. It’s been only a month since President Donald Trump’s Rose Garden event to announce he was nominating Amy Coney Barrett to serve on the Supreme Court. That was a packed Rose Garden celebration for friends and allies of the president and his high court nominee that turned into a coronavirus superspreader event. But when the just-confirmed Barrett returned to the White House on Monday to take her constitutional oath, the celebration was moved to the broader South Lawn, chairs for guests were spread about 6 feet apart, and the mask-wearers greatly outnumbered those who declined to cover their faces.