Activists Broadcast Christine Blasey Ford's Testimony Outside Gala Featuring Brett Kavanaugh

It's been just over each year since Brett Kavanaugh was designated to the Supreme Court, although activists aren't letting Washington, D.C., Do not consider the decisions made to give him that seat.


On Thursday (November 14), the activist sort Demand Justice erected a screen in front of a gala contained at Union Station in the nation's capital, HuffPost reported. On it played a recording of Dr. Christine Blasey Ford's Senate testimony about Kavanaugh assaulting her any time if they were both in high school. Per reports, the phrase "We still believe Christine Blasey Ford" was clearly visible at the best of the screen. Other protestors onsite paid tribute with chants to Anita Hill, who in 1991 testified to the Senate that Clarence Thomas had sexually harassed her. More protestors arrived wearing red robes mirroring costumes from The Handmaid's Tale. Twenty hours right after she first posted it, HuffPost reporter Jennifer Bendery's video of the installation had been viewed over one as well as 1/2 million times.


Per reports, protestors shouted "Shame!" And  "Hey, ho, Kavanaugh has got to go!" At those attending the gala for the Federalist Society, which the New York Times calls a "influential conservative legal order Though the group's website says it "[does] not lobby for legislation, take policy positions, or sponsor or endorse nominees and candidates for public service," the Times notes that the group's president has advised President Donald Trump on judicial nominations. The Trump era has seen the confirmation of over 150 conservative judges, several of whom are in lifetime positions, PBS NewsHour reports.


Plenty of Trump's judicial appointees raise red flags, and Kavanaugh is a prime example: In September 2018, Dr. Blasey Ford, a professor and studies psychologist from California, testified in front of the Senate Judiciary Committee about her allegations that Kavanaugh had sexually assaulted her in 1982, once she was 15 years old. The two had known each other and had been at the same party once Blasey Ford mentioned Kavanaugh attacked her.


The professor added that she was "terrified" to speak out nevertheless that she was coming forward ahead of Kavanaugh's confirmation to the Supreme Court because she imagined it her "civic duty" to explain "what happened to me and the impact it has had on my life and on my family."


She wasn't alone, either: Prior to his confirmation, several other females came forward, both publicly and anonymously, with allegations against the judge. (He has denied all claims.) The Senate ultimately voted 50-48 in favor of appointing Kavanaugh, who has a consistent conservative leaning and whom several activists fear would vote to overturn Roe v. Wade. The Supreme Court is a lifetime appointment; the only way Kavanaugh could lose his seat is if he is impeached.


According to Demand Justice Senior Counsel Katie O'Connor, the sort targeted Thursday night's Federalist Society gala, called the Antonin Scalia Memorial Dinner, specifically because Kavanaugh was giving a speech that night. "Kavanaugh isn't the hero of this story. We still believe Christine Blasey Ford, and we won’t let him forget that," she mentioned in a statement supplied to MTV News. "Putting on a new robe can’t be allowed to erase credible accusations of sexual assault."


The categorize also called out Facebook, which the newsletter Popular Statistics reports was a "gold circle" sponsor of the Gala; the company's head of global public policy, Joel Kaplan, had also been present at the Senate hearings in 2018. "You can claim to respect survivors of sexual assault or you could pay for a celebration of Brett Kavanaugh, however you can’t do both," O'Connor mentioned in her statement. "Any agency that doesn’t aspire to be complicit in normalizing Kavanaugh should withdraw its support from The Federalist Society and pledge not to give in the future."