{"id":379935,"date":"2018-10-06T21:49:25","date_gmt":"2018-10-06T20:49:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/presstv-anti-kavanaugh-protests-held-ahead-of-vote\/"},"modified":"2018-10-06T21:49:25","modified_gmt":"2018-10-06T20:49:25","slug":"presstv-anti-kavanaugh-protests-held-ahead-of-vote","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/presstv-anti-kavanaugh-protests-held-ahead-of-vote\/","title":{"rendered":"PressTV-Anti-Kavanaugh protests held ahead of vote"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>Protesters opposed to US Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh\u00a0have staged demonstrations in Washington,\u00a0DC, ahead of\u00a0the Senate&#8217;s\u00a0vote\u00a0anticipated to be in favor of\u00a0his nomination.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Kavanaugh, who is President Donald Trump\u2019s second nominee for the high court, is\u00a0a suspected serial sex-offender.<\/p>\n<p>Protesters held demonstrations outside the Capitol Building and the US Supreme Court on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>Police arrested a number of protesters, who have been making themselves seen throughout the week, in Washington, DC, sometimes directly confronting Senators outside their offices.<\/p>\n<p>Protests have\u00a0also been\u00a0organized in cities across the country, including in Cleveland, Atlanta and New York City.<\/p>\n<p>Despite the protests, Kavanaugh seems set to be approved after the Senate voted 51-49 on Friday to advance his nomination to the final stage of voting.<\/p>\n<p>The vote for Kavanaugh&#8217;s final confirmation\u00a0is scheduled on Saturday between 4 pm\u00a0and 5 pm local&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.presstv.ir\/Detail\/2018\/10\/06\/576261\/US--Protest-Supreme-Court-Nomination-Brett-Kavanaugh-Senate-confirmation-Vote\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Protesters opposed to US Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh\u00a0have staged demonstrations in Washington,\u00a0DC, ahead of\u00a0the Senate&#8217;s\u00a0vote\u00a0anticipated to be in favor of\u00a0his nomination. Kavanaugh, who is President Donald Trump\u2019s second nominee for the high court, is\u00a0a suspected serial sex-offender. Protesters held demonstrations outside the Capitol Building and the US Supreme Court on Saturday. Police arrested a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-379935","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/379935","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=379935"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/379935\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=379935"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=379935"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=379935"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}