PHOTOS: ‘Handmaids Tale’ Protesters Pace Outside Kavanaugh Hearing To Reject Abortion Rights Record
TOPSHOT - A woman dressed as a character from the novel-turned-TV series "The Handmaid's Tale" walks through the Hart Senate Office Building as Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh starts the first day of his confir...TOPSHOT - A woman dressed as a character from the novel-turned-TV series "The Handmaid's Tale" walks through the Hart Senate Office Building as Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh starts the first day of his confirmation hearing in front of the US Senate on Capitol Hill in Washington DC, on September 4, 2018. - President Donald Trump's newest Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh is expected to face punishing questioning from Democrats this week over his endorsement of presidential immunity and his opposition to abortion. Some two dozen witnesses are lined up to argue for and against confirming Kavanaugh, who could swing the nine-member high court decidedly in conservatives' favor for years to come. Democrats have mobilized heavily to prevent his approval. (Photo by Jim WATSON / AFP) (Photo credit should read JIM WATSON/AFP/Getty Images)MORE LESS
Protesters from the group Demand Justice paced the halls of the Senate dressed in the eerie garb from the novel-turned-TV series “Handmaids Tale” to raise objection to Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh’s record on abortion rights during his confirmation hearing Tuesday.
Women dressed as characters from the novel-turned-TV series “The Handmaid’s Tale” walk through the Hart Senate Office Building as Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh starts the first day of his confirmation hearing in front of the US Senate on Capitol Hill in Washington DC, on September 4, 2018. (Photo by Jim WATSON / AFP) (Photo credit should read JIM WATSON/AFP/Getty Images)TOPSHOT – Women dressed as characters from the novel-turned-TV series “The Handmaid’s Tale” stand in an elevator at the Hart Senate Office Building as Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh starts the first day of his confirmation hearing in front of the US Senate on Capitol Hill in Washington DC, on September 4, 2018. (Photo by Jim WATSON / AFP) (Photo credit should read JIM WATSON/AFP/Getty Images)Demonstrators dressed in costumes from “The Handmaid’s Tale” walk to US Senator Jon Tester’s, D-MT, office in the Hart Senate Office Building on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC, on September 4, 2018, as the Senate Judiciary Committee holds a hearing on the nomination of Judge Brett Kavanaugh to the US Supreme Court. (Photo by Jim WATSON / AFP) (Photo credit should read JIM WATSON/AFP/Getty Images)WASHINGTON, DC – SEPTEMBER 04: Protesters dressed in The Handmaid’s Tale costume, protest outside the hearing room where Supreme Court nominee Judge Brett Kavanaugh will testify before the Senate Judiciary Committee during his Supreme Court confirmation hearing in the Hart Senate Office Building on Capitol Hill September 4, 2018 in Washington, DC. Kavanaugh was nominated by President Donald Trump to fill the vacancy on the court left by retiring Associate Justice Anthony Kennedy. (Photo by Win McNamee/Getty Images)WASHINGTON, DC – SEPTEMBER 04: Protesters dressed in The Handmaid’s Tale costume, protest outside the hearing room where Supreme Court nominee Judge Brett Kavanaugh will testify before the Senate Judiciary Committee during his Supreme Court confirmation hearing in the Hart Senate Office Building on Capitol Hill September 4, 2018 in Washington, DC. Kavanaugh was nominated by President Donald Trump to fill the vacancy on the court left by retiring Associate Justice Anthony Kennedy. (Photo by Win McNamee/Getty Images)WASHINGTON, DC – SEPTEMBER 04: Protesters dressed in The Handmaid’s Tale costume, protest outside the hearing room where Supreme Court nominee Judge Brett Kavanaugh will testify before the Senate Judiciary Committee during his Supreme Court confirmation hearing in the Hart Senate Office Building on Capitol Hill September 4, 2018 in Washington, DC. Kavanaugh was nominated by President Donald Trump to fill the vacancy on the court left by retiring Associate Justice Anthony Kennedy. (Photo by Win McNamee/Getty Images)
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Yes, that’s the way to do it ! Good luck, ladies !
Been up at the house in Maine for the holiday and I am getting a new pop up ad. It is asking that people contribute $20.20 to a fund dedicated to jump starting an opponent for Susan Collins if she votes for Kavanaugh. Also there are regular cable ads airing asking her to stick with her promise to vote against any Scotus nominee that would undo Roe v Wade. They are really putting the pressure on her up here to vote against this nomination.
Great to hear that. When she’s in Maine, she can’t pretend she’s just one of the GOP senators. She has to be Maine’s senator.
I hope Murkowski is getting similar pressure from Alaska.
Either they both vote against Kavanaugh, or neither of them do. The easier path for both is to vote for confirmation if they don’t have good public support for rejection.
That’s good to hear, but she has caved so many times before, even on the abortion issue, and has publicly stated her default support for Kavanaugh:
“He said that he agreed with what Justice Roberts said at his nomination hearing in which he said that it was settled law.”
Yes, that’s the way to do it ! Good luck, ladies !
Been up at the house in Maine for the holiday and I am getting a new pop up ad. It is asking that people contribute $20.20 to a fund dedicated to jump starting an opponent for Susan Collins if she votes for Kavanaugh. Also there are regular cable ads airing asking her to stick with her promise to vote against any Scotus nominee that would undo Roe v Wade. They are really putting the pressure on her up here to vote against this nomination.
Great to hear that. When she’s in Maine, she can’t pretend she’s just one of the GOP senators. She has to be Maine’s senator.
I hope Murkowski is getting similar pressure from Alaska.
Either they both vote against Kavanaugh, or neither of them do. The easier path for both is to vote for confirmation if they don’t have good public support for rejection.
That’s good to hear, but she has caved so many times before, even on the abortion issue, and has publicly stated her default support for Kavanaugh: