Less than an hour into the Senate confirmation hearings for Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh Tuesday morning, U.S. Capitol Police had already arrested 22 protesters outside the proceedings, charging them with disorderly conduct.
At several points throughout the Senate Judiciary Committee’s opening remarks, shouting protestors could be heard trying to silence or distract the senators — when the senators weren’t trying to talk over one another or halt the proceedings, at least.
Kavanaugh himself is due to speak before the committee around 2 p.m.
“As the hearing is scheduled to proceed for several hours today, we will provide a final update regarding number of arrests at the end of the business day,” Eva Malecki, a spokeswoman with the Capitol Police department, said in an email.
Many of the protesters, as seen on a live broadcast of the hearing, appeared to be women.
It’s expected to be the most contentious Supreme Court nominee hearing in decades, as the conservative Kavanaugh, Trump’s second SCOTUS nominee since he took office, could flip the court to a conservative majority, potentially threatening the standing of Roe v. Wade, the landmark 1973 Supreme Court decision that legalized abortion nationwide.
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