Minnesota's two senators, Al Franken and Amy Klobuchar, both voted in the Senate Judiciary Committee today to support Solicitor General Elena Kagan's nomination to the Supreme Court, which passed 13-6 along near-partisan lines.

South Carolina Sen. Lindsey Graham was the lone Republican to vote in favor of Kagan, just as he did with last year's Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor. All other Republicans voted against Kagan and every Democrat supported her.

Both Minnesota senators had previously indicated they would back Kagan, so their vote today was not a surprise.

Franken, who used the confirmation hearings to attack Chief Justice John Roberts for being a judicial activist, said in his support of Kagan that she "won't be the judge who ignores 100,000 pages of evidence that Congress prepares to justify a law — as the Roberts Court did in Citizens United."

Kagan's nomination will now go to a vote before the full Senate, which should occur before the August recess.