The U.S. Senate Confirmed Ketanji Brown Jackson as an Associate Justice on the Supreme Court
In 1955, it was declared that the Communist Party (CPUSA) was not a political party but a conspiracy to overthrow the U.S. Government.
After a nomination process that culminated in a public FBI investigation, Brett Kavanaugh was confirmed largely along party lines 50-48.
In the midst of the Civil War, nine representatives voted in favor of the execution of all those who sided with the Confederacy.
See the votes of Strom Thurmond, infamous segregationist legislator and only centenarian to ever serve in the Senate.