‘People Are No Longer Afraid.’ Hundreds of Women Protest As Kavanaugh’s Fate Hangs in Balance

As Senators huddled around the closely guarded FBI report on Judge Brett Kavanaugh's alleged assault of Christine Blasey Ford on Thursday, the protesters seeking to sink his nomination turned up the volume.

They had been demonstrating for weeks, occupying the atrium of Washington, D.C.'s Hart Senate Office Building, flooding phone lines, and confronting wary Senators in airports.