  On October 6, 2018, the US Senate confirmed Brett Kavanaugh with the
narrowest margin for a successful confirmation since 1881 and where the
senators voted overwhelmingly along party lines. In this paper, we examine
whether the political polarization in the Senate is reflected among the general
public. To do so, we analyze the views of more than 128 thousand Twitter users.
We show that users supporting or opposing Kavanaugh's nomination were generally
using divergent hashtags, retweeting different Twitter accounts, and sharing
links from different websites. We also examine characterestics of both groups.
