(1) Live tweeting the swearing in of Justice Kavanaugh, October 6, 2018.
The White House and then the Supreme Court will host the two ceremonies necessary for the Justice to take his seat on Monday.
#ThankYouSenators #GodBlessAmerica #Originalism 🇺🇸👨⚖️
(2) Brett M. Kavanaugh will soon be the 102nd Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the USA. He has earned this highest honor throughout his life, inspired by his trailblazing mother, Judge Martha Kavanaugh.
His title for these few hours is Associate Justice Designate.
(3) This statement from the Supreme Court explains the two ceremonies:
(4) The President has signed Justice Kavanaugh's Commission of Appointment aboard Air Force One, which is returning to Washington DC from a rally in Topeka, Kansas.
(5) Shortly before the WH ceremony begins, I expect a live broadcast of it will start at the WH website link below, and on the WH FB page and YT channel. I expect the SCOTUS ceremony will be private, with photos released afterward.
whitehouse.gov/live/
(6) Correction: The President's Kansas rally will start in about one hour. So I assume that the swearing in at the WH will occur without him there. I don't think he'll be back until after midnight, IDK. VP will host Justice Roberts at the WH.
(7) I had assumed that the WH ceremony would need to take place first, but I will do some more research and report back. Here he is arriving at the court just before 5.30pm.
(8) It's now being reported that Justice Kavanaugh has been sworn in.
I raise my glass and #DrinkToKav!
(9) My apologies. The Supreme Court statement I showed earlier doesn't mention a WH ceremony tonight. I am so excited and I was so used to that being done first that I didn't read it correctly. I expect that photos of the swearing in will be released soon.
(10) When the President arrives at his rally and announces the news, the crowd will raise the roof. Find a live feed and watch it now. The warm-up speeches are underway.
(11) First pictures:
(12) Justice Roberts administers the first of two oaths of office:
(13) Welcome, Justice Kavanaugh. We are optimists, too.
(14) Huge cheers at the rally as President Trump speaks about Justice Kavanaugh.
He announced that the WH ceremony will take place at 7pm Monday. (The Court is in session on Tuesday morning.)
That's the ceremony I want to live tweet for you.
(15) Official photos: The President signing Justice Kavanaugh's Commission of Appointment just before landing in Kansas.
(16) If you zoom in on the photo of the swearing-in by Justice Kennedy, all four Kavanaughs are smiling.
(17) WH statement: "Mrs. Ashley Kavanaugh held the family Bible. Justice Kavanaugh’s two daughters, Liza and Margaret, and his parents attended the ceremony. Justices Thomas, Ginsburg, Alito, and Kagan also attended."
The other justices in DC at the time attended. Good.
(18) Justice Kavanaugh's WH ceremony at 7pm tonight will be live streamed at the link below. By chance, his middle name, Michael, is also the name of the hurricane moving North toward Florida this week.
🇺🇸❤️Kavanaughs
whitehouse.gov/live/
(19) We've already marked the occasion with #BeersForBrett, but let's do it again.
Because God is good, beer is great, and people are crazy.
Share this Scrolly Tale with your friends.
A Scrolly Tale is a new way to read Twitter threads with a more visually immersive experience.
Discover more beautiful Scrolly Tales like this.