More than 73 people were arrested Wednesday and charged for demonstrating during the Senate Judiciary Committee hearings for Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh.
The U.S. Capitol Police reported they removed 66 people from the committee room in the Hart Senate Office Building, and charged them with disorderly conduct, a misdemeanor.
Capitol Police removed six others allegedly unlawfully demonstrating from the fourth floor of the Russell Senate Office Building. Those six also face misdemeanor charges of crowding, obstructing, or incommoding.
One person arrested in the Hart Atrium faces a charge of resisting arrest, a misdemeanor, along with a charge of crowding, obstructing, or incommoding.
Kavanaugh faced 12 hours of questioning by Republican and Democratic senators during the second day of hearings, which were repeatedly punctuated by protesters. Capitol Police arrested 22 people in the first hour of hearings Tuesday, and 70 total in the first day of hearings.
The Tuesday protests drew criticism from President Trump, who characterized the protests in an interview with the Daily Caller as “an embarrassment.”
