Brett Kavanaugh is sworn as US Supreme Court justice following the closest Senate confirmation vote in more than a century, marking a major win for President Donald Trump's drive to move the country's political institutions to the right.

A one-time classmate of President Donald Trump's Supreme Court nominee says that Brett Kavanaugh was a habitual heavy drinker, challenging the judge's Senate testimony to the contrary.

Fighting to salvage his US Supreme Court nomination, Brett Kavanaugh angrily denies a university professor’s accusation that he sexually assaulted her 36 years ago in a day of dramatic testimony that gripped the country.