Alabama Sen. Jeff Sessions narrowly won confirmation Wednesday evening to become the next Attorney General of the United States.

Fox News reports that the Senate voted 52-47 to approve his nomination. One Democrat, Joe Manchin of West Virginia, sided with Republicans in the vote. 

Sessions is the fifth Cabinet nominee approved by the Senate; secretaries for Defense, Homeland Security, Education and State have already been approved, and Health and Treasury Departments are next.

President Trump has accused Democrats of obstructionism in the series of confirmations thus far.

Fox News has the details of Sessions' contentious nomination process:

Wednesday’s vote came after a rowdy overnight session during which Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., was formally chastised for allegedly impugning Sessions’ integrity on the floor.

Warren had read a letter authored in 1986 by Coretta Scott King, who was against Sessions’ nomination at the time to the federal bench, arguing he used the power of his office to “chill” black voting rights. Warren also quoted the late Sen. Ted Kennedy, D-Mass., who originally had entered King’s letter into the record, describing Sessions as “disgraceful.”

GOP Senate leaders said Warren had violated Senate rules and should lose her speaking privileges. In a remarkable scene, the Senate then voted 49-43 to suspend Warren’s speaking privileges for the rest of the nomination process – the first time the Senate has imposed such a punishment in decades.

Democrats had repeatedly contended that Sessions is too close to Trump, too harsh on immigrants, and weak on civil rights for minorities, immigrants, gay people and women. Sessions was a prominent early backer of Trump, a supporter of his hard line on illegal immigration and joined Trump's advocacy of a wall along the U.S.-Mexico border.

"There is simply nothing in Senator Sessions' testimony before the Judiciary Committee that gives me confidence that he would be willing to stand up to the president," said Sen. Pat Leahy, D-Vt. "He has instead demonstrated only blind allegiance."

Republicans countered that Sessions has demonstrated integrity, honesty, and a commitment to justice and the rule of law over a long career in public service, including two decades in the Senate.

"He's honest. He's fair. He's been a friend to many of us, on both sides of the aisle," said Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky. "It's been tough to watch all this good man has been put through in recent weeks. This is a well-qualified colleague with a deep reverence for the law. He believes strongly in the equal application of it to everyone."