Scores of protesters have taken to Capitol Hill where senators were reading a confidential FBI report about Brett Kavanaugh and preparing for a confirmation vote.
The FBI completed its background check - its seventh in total - late on Wednesday and passed a copy to the White House. On Thursday morning senators from both parties were reading the report in a private room in the senate, used for the handling of classified material.
The protesters made their way from the appeals’ court in Washington DC where Mr Kavanaugh has served for the past 12 years to the Supreme Court on Capitol Hill.
CNN said that as protesters made their way to the court, they handed out posters of an artist’s rendition of a young woman confronting senator Jeff Flake in an elevator in the senate last week after it was announced the Republican senator planned to vote in favor of Mr Kavanaugh.
The incident is thought to have been one of the reasons, Mr Flake announced his support for Mr Kavanaugh was dependent on an additional background check.
Samantha Dercher said she is participating in the protest “because the future of our country depends on it”.
“Kavanaugh is uniquely unfit to serve on our nation's court. His temperament and partisanship during his hearing alone should be enough to disqualify him from consideration,” she told the network.
“A man who has been credibly accused of sexual assault has no place making decisions on women's bodies for generations to come.”
