Photo taken on Oct. 26, 2020 shows the U.S. Capitol Building in Washington, D.C., the United States. (Photo by Ting Shen/Xinhua)

It's unprecedented in modern U.S. history for a Supreme Court justice to be confirmed in the Senate without gaining a single vote of support from the minority party, something unseen for 151 years.

WASHINGTON, Oct. 27  -- A divided U.S. Senate voted mostly along party line Monday to confirm Judge Amy Coney Barrett, President Donald Trump's nominee, to the Supreme Court, succeeding late Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg.

With 52 votes in favor and 48 against, the Republican-controlled Senate's confirmation of the 48-year-old conservative judge to the high court drew opposition from all of the Democratic members in the chamber.

Susan Collins, Republican senator from Maine who faces a tough reelection battle, was the only GOP senator who crossed the political aisle to side with the Democrats.

It's unprecedented in modern U.S. history for a Supreme Court justice to be confirmed in the Senate without gaining a single vote of support from the minority party, something unseen for 151 years.

The confirmation made Barrett, a devout Catholic and longtime law professor at Notre Dame University, the 115th justice of the Supreme Court and the fifth woman ever to sit on the bench.