© AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE/GETTY IMAGESDemonstrator at the Supreme Court.
Some 200 protesters march across the lawn of the U.S. Capitol to the foot of the south wing. Inside, the U.S. Senate is wrapping up its debate, hours before the Saturday afternoon vote to confirm Justice Brett Kavanaugh. Members of the crowd rush up the steps, unfurl professionally printed banners, stand defiantly, and pump their fists in the air.
"Whose house?" they shout.
"Our house!" they answer.
By the time of the vote, they've moved across the street to the Supreme Court building. After getting word of the vote, again they rush the steps. Two women climb the statues flanking the steps - "Contemplation of Justice" and "Authority of Law" - for more fist-pumps.
On the steps, Bob Bland, a co-founder of the Women's March, silently sends a thumbs-up signal to another leader, later boasting: "We took the Supreme Court." On Friday the Women's March had tweeted out a photo of Sen. Susan Collins, who cast the deciding vote for Justice Kavanaugh, with "Rape Apologist" written across her image.
In a series of tweets and rally comments,
President Trump described the crowd as "an angry left-wing mob" of "professional protesters who are handed expensive signs" and "paid for by [George] Soros and others."
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