WASHINGTON, Aug 6, 2010 (AFP) – Elena Kagan has become only the fourth woman to win confirmation as Supreme Court justice, giving Democrats a welcome election year boost. But the court’s conservative make-up is unlikely to change. Senators voted 63-37 Thursday to confirm Kagan as one of the nine justices who act as final arbiters of the US Constitution, set precedent for lower courts, and decide the nation’s toughest moral and legal dilemmas. Five Republicans broke ranks to back the 50-year-old former Harvard Law School dean, and just one Democrat, Senator Ben Nelson of Nebraska, voted against her. She will be sworn in on Saturday by Chief Justice John Roberts, but will not be formally seated until October 1 for the court’s fall session. Though never seriously in doubt, her confirmation to the lifetime post gave President Barack Obama and his Democratic allies a much-needed victory before November mid-term elections in which they are expected to suffer heavy losses. Thanking the Senate, Obama said he was “confident that Elena Kagan will make an outstanding Supreme Court Justice.” The confirmation brought to two the number of justices named by the president — after the court’s first Hispanic justice, Sonia Sotomayor –…
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