By Emma Beavon, reporter

More than 300 protesters have been arrested in Washington DC following protests againstUS President Donald Trump’s Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh.

Celebrities including model actress Emily Ratajkowski and Comedian Amy Schumer were among the 302 people arrested for the demonstration.

This comes on the heels of the year anniversary of the #MeToo movement that was started last year October.

The protests seen on Thursday were unprecedented for any supreme court nominee in recent history. For the first time in history women have been at the forefront of a supreme court decision.

Thousands of protesters, including sexual assault survivors, gathered outside the courthouse in DC where Kavanaugh sits as a federal judge.

The rallying cry: “We believe Dr Christine Blasey Ford” was heard across the capital. Dr Christine Blasey Ford is the University professor who has accused Kavanaugh of violently and drunkenly sexually assaulting her at a party when they were teenagers.

Kavanaugh has also been accused of sexual misconduct by two other women who have been named including one anonymous allegation.

The events of the protests soon moved on to politicians, activists and sexual assault survivors making speeches over a megaphone from a make shift podium. Amy Schumer was among the speakers for the day.

Senator Heidi Heitkamp, a Democrat facing a re-election battle in North Dakota, announced her opposition to Kavanaugh in her speech.

Demonstrators later marched directly to the Hart Senate office building, where thousands packed into the atrium while thousands more flooded each floor. The building was filled with chants of “Our court” and “Justice now”while many spread their banners, branded with “Kavanaugh lies” and “Never again”, on the floor.

293 people were then put in plastic handcuffs and led away by law enforcement and a further nine were arrested for another demonstration on the fourth floor of the Dirksen Senate Office building.

Among those arrested were Amy Schumer, who has been heavily involved in the Time’s Up movement against sexual violence and harassment, as well as model Emily Ratajkowski.

Ratajkowski later took to twitter to say: “Today I was arrested protesting the Supreme Court nomination of Brett Kavanaugh, a man who has been accused by multiple women of sexual assault. Men who hurt women can no longer be placed in positions of power.”

The protesters staged a sit-in at a Senate office building, one day before the body was set to take its first vote on Kavanaugh’s nomination to America’s highest bench.

President Tump responded to the protests by saying the protesters’ “rage-fuelled resistance is starting to backfire at a level nobody has ever seen before.”

Earlier, Republicans declared an FBI report exonerated Kavanaugh of sexual assault allegations made against him.

But Democrats called the inquiry incomplete because it was limited to the white house.

Kavanaugh has also been criticised over his furious Senate appearance last week where he claimed the allegations made against him were “revenge on behalf of the Clintons.”

He later appeared in an article in the Wall Street Journal where he admitted he “might have been too emotional.”

The vote today is a procedural vote to end the debate, and is the time for some fence-sitting senators to make a decision before a final vote on Saturday.