Christine Bubser

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During her time protesting in Washington, she was cited five separate times by the police. Although she claims in one Facebook Live video to have been physically arrested, 7 we are still unsure whether it was an actual arrest or not. Records pertaining to the cases below are unavailable due to the closure of the D.C. Superior Court but will be requested once the court reopens.

On an Oct. 7, 2018, post on Rabbi John Rosove’s blog, Chris Bubser commented that she had to force her way into Senator Susan Collins’ office and called the senator’s speech regarding Kavanagh as “unnecessarily cruel”:

I was in Senator Collins’ office with a group of activists during her speech. We weren’t welcomed in, we pushed our way in . The Capitol police cleared the hall of all the other protesters and it was just those of us in the office who were left. There were survivors who had ridden buses from Maine overnight to talk to her, so the emotion filled the room. We held our collective breath for 45 minutes. Her justification speech was unnecessarily cruel in its length and utter dismissiveness of the issues and the truth . When she talked about presumption of innocence and I thought of the hundreds of thousands of people who are incarcerated for “crimes” far less serious than the accusations against Judge Kavanaugh, my heart split with frustration from the hypocrisy of it all. What has made some people harden their hearts so completely that they can’t even see our humanity any longer? 8

7 https://www.facebook.com/BirddogNationDoc/videos/512526255881339/ (Time Stamp: 1:30) 8 “Senator Susan Collins – Two important op-eds – NY Times and Washington Post,” Rabbi John Rosove’s Blog, Oct. 7, 2018