
For the last few weeks, news media, politicians and "Saturday Night Live" have only been able to focus on one thing: Brett Kavanaugh.
The polished Yale alumnus has a distinguished resume—clerking for Justice Anthony Kennedy, working on President George W. Bush's legal team and serving as a judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit.
But that's not what's in the headlines. After President Donald Trump nominated Kavanaugh for the Supreme Court, several sexual assault allegations against the judge surfaced. Both Kavanaugh and his first accuser, Christine Blasey Ford, testified in front of the Senate last week, and senators reviewed an FBI investigation into the nominee Thursday. Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell has scheduled Kavanaugh's nomination vote for Friday.
Republican Party leaders also held a press conference Thursday after receiving the FBI report. Some GOP members showed their support for Kavanaugh.
"What we know for sure is the FBI report did not corroborate any of the allegations against Judge Kavanaugh," McConnell said.
While most Democrats are planning to vote "nay" on Kavanaugh, and most Republicans are hoping to push him through, there are a few from either side of the aisle who remain undecided. And if just two of them decide to vote in the judge's favor, the nomination will probably go through.
Here's who still remains undecided: Susan Collins (R-Maine), Jeff Flake (R-Ariz.), Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) and Joe Manchin III (D-W.Va.).
Democratic Sen. Heidi Heitkamp of North Dakota was also on this list, but she announced Thursday that she will be voting against Kavanaugh. Heitkamp is a moderate Democrat and voted in favor of the nomination of Neil Gorsuch last year.
"This isn't a political decision. If this were a political decision for me, I certainly would be deciding this the other way, but…I can't get up in the morning and look at the life experience that I've had, and say yes on Judge Kavanaugh," she said.
