'It's time for women to be heard': thousands protest Kavanaugh in Washington
Source: Guardian
Dozens were arrested by police, including Emily Ratajkowski, in a final appeal to vote against the nominee.
Thousands of protesters, among them victims of sexual assault, have descended upon the US Capitol with a desperate final appeal to lawmakers to reject embattled supreme court nominee Brett Kavanaugh.
The demonstrations began early Thursday afternoon, one day before the US Senate is poised to take its first vote on the judge’s nomination to America’s highest bench. Many protesters and activists had traveled to the nation’s capital from across the country. They marched to a rallying cry: “We believe Dr Christine Blasey Ford”, the university professor who has accused Kavanaugh of drunkenly and violently sexually assaulting her at a party when they were teenagers.
The scenes were unprecedented for any supreme court nominee in recent history; demonstrators gathered outside the courthouse in Washington where Kavanaugh currently sits as a federal judge and walked in unison to the supreme court, where he wishes to serve.
“It’s time for women to be heard,”
Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/oct/04/kavanaugh-supreme-court-protests-washington
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no more, also that Lindsey Graham is nothing but a trumpster and a traitor. 
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