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Fully KeptJudiciary

Committed, as a U.S. Senator, to fight for and vote to confirm judicial nominees she describes as pro-life and constitutionally conservative.

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Fully KeptFact-checker reviewConfidence: 88%

All three cited sources were fetched and support the FULL rating for both components of the promise — "fight for" and "vote to confirm" pro-life/constitutionally conservative judicial nominees. Primary Senate roll-call records confirm Hyde-Smith voted Yea on Brett Kavanaugh (50-48, Oct 6, 2018) and Amy Coney Barrett (52-48, Oct 26, 2020); "Hyde-Smith (R-MS), Yea" appears verbatim in both records. She was seated in April 2018 and was therefore correctly present for both confirmations (and correctly absent for Gorsuch, confirmed April 2017). Both nominees came from the conservative Federalist Society shortlist and are widely regarded as pro-life/constitutionally conservative. The "fight for" component is satisfied by her verified Sept 26, 2018 Senate floor speech defending Kavanaugh ("He is a champion of the Constitution"; "a disciple of the rule of law and judicial restraint") and explicitly calling for a confirmation vote. FULL rather than CHAMPIONED is correct: her advocacy was rhetorical floor support (which the promise itself frames as "fight for"), and there is no evidence she led the confirmation effort — she was not Judiciary Committee chair, floor manager, or sponsor. Rating well-supported.

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