CNN News:特朗普提名卡瓦诺任最高法院大法官

U.S. High Court is set to get a new justice. Those who serve there essentially stay as long as they want. In Article 3, Section 1, the U.S. Constitution states that Supreme Court Justices quote "shall hold their offices during good behavior." It does not set a limit for how long they can serve. Many justices has passed away while they were still on the High Court. Many have chosen to retire. Associate Justice Anthony Kennedy announced his retirement earlier this year. He's been serving since U.S. President Ronald Reagan appointed him in 1988. After Justice Kennedy set a date for his retirement, the next step was for President Donald Trump to nominate Kennedy's replacement.
And on July 9th the President named Judge Brett Kavanaugh as his nominee to serve on the High Court. Kavanaugh is 53 years old. He's currently a judge in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit. He's President Trump's second nominee to the High Court. The first nominee was Judge Neil Gorsuch who was confirmed in April of 2017. He filled a vacancy left by the death of Associate Justice Antonin Scalia. Just like Justice Gorsuch, Judge Kavanaugh will have to go through a Senate confirmation process and that doesn't necessarily mean he'll get the job. Before any Presidential nominee can take the bench, the Constitution requires the Senate to provide advice and consent to the President. As part of that, Judge Kavanaugh Senate confirmation hearings are set to begin on September 4th.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: The Supreme Court in 60 seconds. You don't need any particular qualifications to be on the Court. You just need a President willing to push you up Pennsylvania Avenue as his nominee. Brett Kavanaugh has that so what's next? At the Capitol Hill meet with the Senate Judiciary Committee, 11 Republicans and 10 Democrats who will have collected all sorts of information from colleagues and acquaintances and old court records, maybe even law enforcement. And they'll have a lot of questions for him about his resume and his legal opinions and his ideas at the end of which they will vote to either confirm his nomination or to reject his nomination or neither.
Then they send him on to the full Senate. And here on the open floor the debate will rage between those who really want the candidate confirmed and those who really don't. 51 Senators can vote to stop the debate. Just as many can vote for confirmation. In the event of the tie, the Vice-President decides. And if Kavanaugh is confirmed his new job is right across the street.