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Article snippet: Advocates for sexual assault survivors and women's rights, who mobilized against Brett Kavanaugh’s nomination to the Supreme Court, are now turning their energy to the November midterms and beyond. The groups gained national attention over the past month with their protests in Washington, D.C., and around the nation, personally confronting senators and sparking mass arrests at the Capitol. Even though the Senate confirmed Kavanaugh on Saturday afternoon, the groups now hope to harness their influence to elect congressional candidates and press for legislation on Capitol Hill. “There’s no question that the energy from this moment will relate to the energy that we will all see in November,” Fatima Goss Graves, president and CEO of the National Women’s Law Center, told The Hill. Graves said the protesters’ objectives were broader than just electing Democrats. “Anyone who covers for abuse, anyone who is not interested in changing the institutions that cover for abuse, will find themselves vulnerable,” she said. After Christine Blasey Ford went public with her allegation that Kavanaugh sexually assaulted her at a high school party in 1982, sexual assault survivors quickly mobilized to oppose his nomination. Kavanaugh vehemently denied the allegations from Ford and two other women. In one dramatic incident, Sen. MORE (R-Ariz.), was confronted by protesters in an elevator on his way to a Senate Judiciary Committee vote to advance Kavanaugh's nomination to the full Senat... Link to the full article to read more