(Photo by Demand Justice)

Women dressed as handmaids showed up to protest at the confirmation hearings of Judge Brett Kavanaugh. (Photo by Demand Justice)

Update 9/7/2018

Another 69 people were arrested Thursday at Judge Brett Kavanaugh’s nomination hearings, according to a statement by the U.S. Capitol Police.

Thirty-seven people were arrested from the Committee room in the Hart Senate Office Building, and charged with disorderly conduct under the D.C. Code. An additional thirty-one people were arrested from outside the hearing room, and charged with crowding, obstructing, or incommoding. One man, a Code Pink demonstrator, was arrested inside the hearing room and charged with resisting arrest, simple assault, and disruption of congress under the D.C. Code.

According to WTOP reporter Alejandro Alvarez, the man, Tighe Barry, spent the night in police custody.

The arrests on Thursday bring the total to 212.

Update 9/6/2018

Seventy-three more people were arrested on Wednesday at Judge Brett Kavanaugh’s Senate nomination hearings, according to the U.S. Capitol Police. Sixty-six people were arrested from the Committee room in the Hart Senate Building, and were charged with disorderly conduct under the D.C. Code.

Six more people were arrested from the Russell Senate Office Building, and were charged with crowding, obstructing, or incommoding under the D.C. Code.

One last person was arrested in the Hart Atrium, and was charged with crowding, obstructing, or incommoding, as well as resisting arrest.

Update 9/4/2018

By the end of Brett Kavanaugh’s Tuesday nomination hearings, the U.S. Capitol Police had arrested 70 people for protesting. Sixty-one of them were removed from the Hart Senate Office Building for interrupting the hearing, and were charged with disorderly conduct under the D.C. code.

Another nine people were escorted from the second floor of the Dirksen Office Building for what USCP calls “unlawful demonstration activities,” and charged with crowding, obstructing, or incommoding, also under the D.C. code.

Original

Judge Brett Kavanaugh, President Donald Trump’s nominee for the Supreme Court, began his four-day nomination hearings at the Capitol on Tuesday morning, and the proceedings were almost immediately interrupted by protesters.

Linda Sarsour, one of the Women’ March organizers, was escorted out of the building after she stood up and started yelling. Other protesters soon joined her, yelling “be a hero” and “please vote no.” They were escorted out of the building as well. As of 10:19 a.m., 22 people have been arrested for disorderly conduct, according to the Capitol Police.

The proceedings have been consistently interrupted throughout the morning:

An hour before the hearings even began, a group of women dressed as handmaids lined both sides of the Judiciary Committee hearing room in protest. Kavanaugh is widely seen as a threat to Roe v. Wade, the landmark case that protected abortion rights (he has called it “settled law,” though that doesn’t actually say much).

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