'Rise up, women!': Angry crowds flood Capitol Hill to protest Brett Kavanaugh nomination
Channel: Breaking news
Date: 2018-09-29

'Rise up, women!': Angry crowds flood Capitol Hill to protest Brett Kavanaugh nomination

WASHINGTON – In a full-day of demonstrations on Capitol Hill, hundreds of mostly women protesters raised fists and shouted "Lock Him Up" in front of the Supreme Court, unfurled banners inside a Senate office building and even  blocked a Senate elevator door to directly confront Sen. Jeff Flake on live TV.

Angry protesters marched and shouted in, around and through the marbled buildings that dot Capitol Hill even as members of the Senate Judiciary were gingerly advancing the controversial nomination of Brett Kavanaugh to the full Senate for a vote next week.

Arrests were plentiful. Some for blocking hallways, others for unfurling banners reading "Withdraw Kavanaugh. No Abusees on the Supreme Court" from the upper floors of the Hart Senate Office Building. 

In the most dramatic confrontation, Maria Gallagher and Ana Maria Archila, two women who said they had been sexually abused, blocked an elevator door that Sen. Jeff Flake, R-Ariz., was trying to close.

"What you are doing is allowing someone who actually violated a woman to sit in the Supreme Court," a visibly distraught Archila  told Flake. "This is intolerable."

Gallagher, equally upset, told the senator: "You have power but so many women are powerless." 

At noon, more than a hundred protesters – mostly women – gathered in front of the Supreme Court ahead of a Women’s March to hear speeches from fellow activists, sympathetic Democratic lawmakers and even folk singer Joan Baez. 

The crowd’s energy rose as they chanted “Hey Hey, Ho Ho, Kavanaugh has got to go” and “The people, united, will never be divided!” amid drumming. 
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