WASHINGTON _ U.S. Capitol Police arrested hundreds of people protesting Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh's pending confirmation in the atrium of the Hart Senate Office Building on Thursday.
Protesters initially planned to hold their rally on the East Front of the Capitol, but Capitol Police cordoned off the area Thursday morning. So the thousands of demonstrators streamed into the Hart building, chanting and singing against Kavanaugh, whom multiple women have accused of sexual misconduct.
Police began making arrests around 4 p.m.
Among the arrested: comedian and actress Amy Schumer, a distant cousin of Senate Minority Leader Charles E. Schumer of New York.
This isn't the first time Schumer has taken up a political cause. In 2016, she publicly supported President Barack Obama's efforts to tighten the country's gun laws.
Thousands of women, including scores of sexual assault survivors, marched the }-mile strip of Constitution Avenue from the federal courthouse in D.C. where Kavanaugh currently presides to the steps of the Supreme Court on Thursday.
They held signs reading "Believe Survivors," "November is coming," "#CancelKavanaugh," and "No abusers on the Supreme Court," and chanted along the way.
"Last week, we proved that people coming together and sharing their stories can change the course of history," Ana Maria Archila, co-director of the Center for Popular Democracy Action, one of the planned protest's organizers, said in a statement Thursday.
The American Civil Liberties Union organized a protest with hundreds of people from Alaska, Nebraska, West Virginia, Colorado, and Maine.
The Capitol Police have not released Thursday's arrest totals.
