5, 2018, but The Washington Post reported that nearly 300 protesters had been arrested.
While protesters did push past a police barricade in front of the steps of the Supreme Court to pound on its doors, according to NBC News, USA TODAY could find no reference to protesters entering the Supreme Court building.Ĭapitol Police said in a press release they arrested more than 100 people for infractions that ranged from crowding and obstructing to unlawful conduct on Oct. Jeff Flake, R-Ariz., according to USA TODAY. Several were taken out of the Dirksen Senate Office Building in plastic cuffs. Inside the Hart Senate Office Building, protesters unfurled banners and even directly confronted Sen. While some people protested outside, others waited in line for tickets to the confirmation hearing, where they stood to disrupt senators' questioning of Kavanaugh, according to Reuters. Kavanaugh, then a federal appeals court judge, vehemently denied the allegation. They were demonstrating after California professor Christine Blasey Ford accused Kavanaugh, initially in an anonymous letter and then in testimony during the confirmation hearings, of sexually assaulting her when the two were teenagers decades earlier. While Kavanaugh answered questions from senators during his confirmation hearings, protesters demonstrated both inside and outside the U.S. The earliest identifiable individual who shared the post could not be reached for comment.įact check: Biden administration delays implementation of Trump rule on insulin, EpiPens Protests erupt during Kavanaugh hearings The screenshot of that post has been viewed thousands of times on Facebook after being shared by dozens of individual users. This was in 2018 when the liberals and Democrats stormed the Capitol building and the Supreme Court building and disrupted and desecrated them over Judge Kavanaugh, or did we all forget about that.” Capitol Police, pounding on the doors of the Supreme Court and occupying the Capitol steps. An array of photos on the post shows protesters being removed by U.S.
One such post uses images of protesters demonstrating in late 2018, during the confirmation hearings for now-Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh, who was accused of sexual assault as a teenager – an allegation he denied. 6 insurrection to other recent demonstrations. Capitol apparently attempting to stop Congress from counting electoral votes that would confirm President Joe Biden’s election victory, some social media users have compared the Jan. In the weeks since rioters stormed the U.S. Watch Video: Shocking video inside Capitol siege shows rioters looking for lawmakers The claim: In 2018, liberals and Democrats protesting against Judge Brett Kavanaugh stormed the Capitol and Supreme Court, disrupting and desecrating them
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