Republicans aim to confirm Brett Kavanaugh for SC; protesters arrested
Brett Kavanaugh, US President Donald Trump’s Supreme Court nominee, has been guaranteed the Senate’s approval amid ongoing protests against the nomination of the alleged sex offender.
Protesters, many dressed in black, rallied outside the Supreme Court on Thursday against Kavanaugh whom three women have accused of sexual misconduct during the 80s.
Some of the signs held by the protesters read "Believe Survivors" and "Kava-Nope". Protesters then crowded into the Hart Senate Office Building after rallying in front of the Supreme Court.
Hundreds of them, including actress Amy Schumer, were arrested.
Republicans, in the meantime, said Kavanaugh had been exonerated by the FBI of sexual assault allegations.
They plan to hold a key procedural vote on Friday and a final vote on Saturday to approve Kavanaugh for a lifetime job on the top US court.
Republicans control the Senate by a 51-49 margin.
The approval of the conservative Kavanaugh for the position would place the Supreme Court under Republican influence.
Whitewash investigation
Fifty-one-year-old psychology professor Christine Blasey Ford testified in front of the Senate Judiciary Committee that Kavanaugh sexually assaulted her during a party in 1982.
Kavanaugh rejected the testimony.
The conservative judge described it part of a smear campaign,
Trump ordered the FBI to investigate the matter and after the release of its report, he wrote on Twitter that the investigation showed that the allegations against Kavanaugh were "totally uncorroborated."
In a letter to FBI Director Christopher Wray, Ford's lawyers noted that the agency declined to interview Ford or any of more than a dozen people they identified to provide relevant information, calling the five-day investigation "a stain on the process, on the FBI and on our American ideal of justice."
The FBI report was denounced by Democrats as a whitewash that was too narrow in scope and ignored critical witnesses.
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