Georgia Supreme Court Justice Britt Grant moved a major step closer to confirmation to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit as the U.S. Senate agreed Monday evening to invoke cloture and send her nomination to the floor for a vote in the next day or two.

The cloture motion to end debate passed 52-44, reflecting the partisan divide. Republican Majority Leader Mitch McConnell told the senators that Grant is a judge who will “interpret the law rather than make it.” Democratic Minority Leader Chuck Schumer said she was just the opposite, calling her a “nakedly partisan judge.”