CLOSE Women plea with Senator Flake to hear their concerns about confirming Judge Brett Kavanaugh. USA TODAY 
 
 A woman who said she is a survivor of a sexual assault, right, confronts Republican Senator from Arizona Jeff Flake, left, in an elevator after Flake announced that he vote to confirm Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh in the Russell Senate Office Building in Washington, DC. (Photo: Jim Lo Scalzo, EPA-EFE) 
 
 A protester who said she was sexually assaulted approached Senator Jeff Flake in an elevator Friday after he released a statement saying he would be voting in favor of Brett Kavanaugh for a seat on the Supreme Court. 
 
 The unidentified woman could be heard shouting at Flake, R-Ariz., during a CNN live shot before the Senate Judiciary Committee moved toward a vote on Brett Kavanaugh's nomination to the Supreme Court Friday morning. Flake had previously been undecided. 
 
 "You're telling me that my assault doesn't matter," a woman, audibly emotional, can be heard telling Flake. 
 
 CLOSE A woman who identified herself as a sexual assault survivor told Senator Jeff Flake his vote for Kavanaugh means her voice "doesn't matter." USA TODAY cameras were at a protest the woman joined a day earlier. USA TODAY 
 
 Throughout the encounter, Flake is seen looking down, nodding his head and avoiding eye contact with the women. 
 
 "Don't look away from me," the woman can be heard saying. "Look at me and tell me that it doesn't matter what happened to me." 
 
 The woman continues to criticize Flake, saying he is allowing attackers to occupy positions of power. 
 
 "Thank you," Flake said. "I need to get to the hearing. You will hear more from me." 
 
 The Center for Popular Democracy later told USA TODAY the woman is Ana Maria Archila, co-executive of the liberal nonprofit advocacy group. 
 
 “Earlier this week, I shared my survivor story for the first time in front of Senator Jeff Flake’s office ... By announcing he will vote “yes” on Brett Kavanaugh’s nomination, Flake showed us that he does not care about our truths and does not care about women," Archila said in a statement. 
 
 In the hearing Friday, Flake said, “our system of justice affords a presumption of innocence to the accused, absent corroborating evidence. That is what binds us to the rule of law.” 
 
 The Republican-led committee announced it would vote on Kavanaugh by 1:30 p.m. ET and most of the panel's Democrats walked out in protest. 
 
 Women confront Sen. Jeff Flake after he says he'll vote yes to Kavanuagh: “That’s what you’re telling all women in America, that they don’t matter. They should just keep it to themselves because if they have told the truth you’re just going to help that man to power anyway.” pic.twitter.com/T7fSpyT69E — CNN (@CNN) September 28, 2018 
 
 If the committee approves the nomination, it would then go to the full Senate over the weekend, with a final up-or-down vote possible by Tuesday. 
 
 More: Tips for sexual assault survivors dealing with onslaught of triggering news 
 
 More: The Kavanaugh hearings triggering painful memories? How to mute sexual assault on Twitter 
 
 Thursday, Flake asked no questions during the emotional hearing. He spoke for only one minute and said little. 
 
 CLOSE Inspired by Christine Blasey Ford's testimony during Brett Kavanaugh's hearing, a C-SPAN caller shared her story of sexual assault for the first time since it happened in the 2nd grade. USA TODAY 
 
 Friday’s controversial vote on Kavanaugh follows allegations from Christine Blasey Ford, who alleges the nominee forced her onto a bed and tried to remove her clothes at a party when they were both high school teens. Kavanaugh denies the sexual assault and also denies ever being at the party. 
 
 More: The images that will define the emotional testimony by Brett Kavanaugh and Christine Ford 
 
 Ronald J. Hansen of the Arizona Republic and Richard Wolf and Christal Hayes of USA TODAY contributed to this story. 
 
 Read or Share this story: https://usat.ly/2xSzz6m ||||| This is a set of web collections curated by Mark Graham using the Archive-IT service of the Internet Archive. They include web captures of the ISKME.org website as well as captures from sites hosted by IGC.org.These web captures are available to the general public.For more information about this collection please feel free to contact Mark via Send Mail ||||| After Sen. Jeff Flake’s announcement that he would, in fact, vote to confirm Judge Brett M. Kavanaugh to the U.S. Supreme Court, the emotional debate over the confirmation spilled into the halls of Congress — on live television — as two women loudly and tearfully confronted the Arizona Republican in an el­e­va­tor Friday, telling him that he was dis­miss­ing the pain of sexual-assault survivors. 
 
 “What you are doing is allowing someone who ac­tu­al­ly violated a woman to sit in the Supreme Court,” one woman, who said she had been sexually assaulted, shouted during a live CNN broadcast as Flake was making his way to a Senate Judiciary Committee meeting. The Center for Popular Democracy, a left-leaning advocacy organization, later identified her as the group’s co-executive director, Ana Maria Archila. 
 
 “This is horrible,” she told Flake. “You have children in your family. Think about them.” 
 
 [Analysis: Kavanaugh’s evasive testimony probably wouldn’t have been allowed in his own courtroom] 
 
 Another woman then chimed in, telling the senator that she had also been sex­u­al­ly assaulted and that no one believed her story. 
 
 “You’re telling all women that they don’t matter — that they should just stay quiet because if they tell you what happened to them, you’re going to ignore them,” she said as the TV cameras rolled. 
 
 “You’re just going to help that man to power anyway,” she added, weeping. “That’s what you’re telling all of these women. That’s what you’re telling me right now. 
 
 “Look at me when I’m talking to you! You’re telling me that my assault doesn’t matter, that what happened to me doesn’t matter and that you’re going to let people who do these things into power! That’s what you’re telling me when you vote for him! Don’t look away from me! Look at me and tell me that it doesn’t matter what happened to me — that you’ll let people like that go into the highest court in the land!” 
 
 Flake listened quietly, then told the women: “Thank you.” 
 
 “Saying ‘thank you’ is not an answer,” Archila responded. “This is about the future of our country, sir.” 
 
 A tweet from immigrant rights group Make the Road Action identified the second woman who confronted Flake as Maria Gallagher and showed a photo of her standing with Archila. A woman claiming to be Gallagher later published a tweet with the same image. 
 
 These two heroes, who confronted @JeffFlake this morning, just changed the course of the Kavanaugh process. We❤️you so much, @AnaMariaArchil2 and Maria Gallagher. #StopKavanaugh pic.twitter.com/Hd4gxLWcCE — Make the Road Action (@MaketheRoadAct) September 28, 2018 
 
 When asked whether he had a comment, the senator told reporters: “No, I need to go to the hearing. I just issued a statement. I’ll be saying more, as well.” 
 
 [The American Bar Association had Kavanaugh concerns 12 years ago. Republicans dismissed those, too.] 
 
 In his statement, issued at 9:25 a.m. Washington time, roughly six minutes before the confrontation, Flake said that Thursday’s emotional Senate Ju­di­ci­ar­y hearing had not persuaded him that Kavanaugh sex­u­al­ly assaulted Christine Blasey Ford in the 1980s. 
 
 “I wish that I could express the confidence that some of my colleagues have conveyed about what either did or did not happen in the early 1980s, but I left the hearing yesterday with as much doubt as certainty,” he said in the statement. “What I do know is that our system of justice affords a presumption of innocence to the accused, absent corroborating evidence. That is what binds us to the rule of law. While some may argue that a different standard should apply regarding the Senate’s advice and consent responsibilities, I believe that the constitution’s previsions of fairness and due process apply here as well.” 
 
 
 
 Ana Maria Archila confronts Sen. Jeff Flake in an elevator after Flake announced that he would vote in favor of sending Kavanaugh's nomination to the wider Senate for debate. (JIM LO SCALZO/EPA-EFE/REX) (Jim Lo Scalzo/EPA-EFE/REX/Shutterstock) 
 
 “I will vote to confirm Judge Kavanaugh," Flake concluded. But that wasn’t all. 
 
 When the Senate Judiciary Committee voted to send Kavanaugh’s confirmation out of committee and to the full Senate, Flake announced that his support for Kavanaugh hinged on an FBI investigation and said that he would not vote to confirm Kavanaugh without it. 
 
 On Friday afternoon, the women’s advocacy group Ultraviolet announced that Capitol Police told an organizer that Flake would “potentially press charges” against Archila and Gallagher, but a spokeswoman for Capitol Police told The Washington Post that Flake had indicated to them that he would not press charges. 
 
 [Chris Coons fights back tears defending Jeff Flake: ‘We share a deep concern’] 
 
 The confrontation was hardly the first time in which tensions over this Supreme Court nomination have boiled over on Capitol Hill. 
 
 The night before — following the testimony of Christine Blasey Ford, the woman accusing Kavanaugh of sexually assaulting her when the two were teenagers — Sen. Lindsey O. Graham (R-S.C.) was similarly confronted by protesters in front of the cameras. Earlier, he had excoriated Senate Judiciary Committee Democrats, saying, “Boy, you all want power. God, I hope you never get it. I hope the American people can see through this sham . . . You had no intention of protecting Dr. Ford; none." 
 
 As Graham was walking and talking to Fox News about the hearing — calling the way Kavanaugh was treated “despicable” and saying that he also felt bad for Ford — protesters followed him and heckled him. Graham ignored them, pausing only briefly to tell a reporter, “These people can yell all they want to. Doesn’t matter.” He then resumed the interview, attempting to speak over their shouts. 
 
 “It’s all about power,” he said. “It’s all about delaying the hearing to keep the seat open. It’s not about the truth.” 
 
 LINDSEY GRAHAM moments ago on Fox (with protesters yelling behind him): 
 
 
 
 "These people can yell all they want to. Doesn't matter. I believe him." pic.twitter.com/xyOiaGZnOF — JM Rieger (@RiegerReport) September 27, 2018 
 
 As The Post’s Reis Thebault reported, Graham and Republican senators Mike Lee and Orrin G. Hatch were “doxed” Thursday when their personal information — including their phone numbers and home addresses, were leaked to the public. Graham said Friday on “Fox & Friends” that people were banging on his front door Thursday night and that he had to get a new phone number. 
 
 On Monday, Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Tex.) and his wife were shouted out of a restaurant about a mile from the Senate building over Cruz’s unwavering support of Kavanaugh. ||||| Published on Sep 28, 2018 
 
 Sen. Jeff Flake, minutes after he announced he will support Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh, was confronted at the US Capitol Friday morning by two women who say they are sexual assault survivors.
– Jeff Flake made big headlines Friday morning when he announced he would vote in favor of Brett Kavanaugh, making it all but certain the judge will be approved by the Senate Judiciary Committee. But the Republican senator from Arizona quickly learned that his decision had angered those who oppose Kavanaugh. A CNN camera captured the scene as two women confronted Kavanaugh in an elevator as he tried to make his way to a meeting of the committee. “What you are doing is al­low­ing some­one who ac­tu­al­ly vio­lat­ed a woman to sit in the Su­preme Court,” one woman told him. “This is hor­rible. You have chil­dren in your fam­i­ly. Think a­bout them.” See the video here. The other woman, who said she was a survivor of sexual abuse, then interjected: “You’re tell­ing all women that they don’t mat­ter—that they should just stay quiet be­cause if they tell you what hap­pened to them, you’re going to ig­nore them,” she said, reports the Washington Post. Flake didn't engage, saying, "Thank you," and explaining he needed to get to his meeting. “Look at me when I’m talk­ing to you!" said the woman, identified at USA Today as Ana Maria Archila, co-executive of the liberal advocacy group the Center for Popular Democracy. "You’re tell­ing me that my as­sault doesn’t mat­ter, that what hap­pened to me doesn’t mat­ter and that you’re going to let people who do these things into pow­er! That’s what you’re tell­ing me when you vote for him!"