{"id":1646,"date":"2018-10-06T23:09:48","date_gmt":"2018-10-06T23:09:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/press\/?p=1646"},"modified":"2018-10-06T23:09:48","modified_gmt":"2018-10-06T23:09:48","slug":"statement-by-speaker-corey-johnson-on-the-confirmation-of-brett-kavanaugh-to-the-u-s-supreme-court","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/press\/2018\/10\/06\/1646\/","title":{"rendered":"Statement by Speaker Corey Johnson on the Confirmation of Brett Kavanaugh to the U.S. Supreme Court"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cToday I traveled to Washington D.C. along with members of the City Council\u2019s Women\u2019s Caucus to protest the confirmation of Brett Kavanaugh to our Supreme Court.<\/p>\n<p>When the vote went down, I was outside the U.S. Supreme Court with Council Members Helen Rosenthal, Karen Koslowitz, Adrienne Adams, Vanessa Gibson, Alicka Ampry-Samuel along with thousands of Americans at a rally condemning the injustice of this appointment.<\/p>\n<p>Many of the speakers were women &#8211; including U.S. Sen. Elizabeth Warren &#8211; and many were survivors of sexual assault.<\/p>\n<p>I was blown away by their passion and patriotism. Despite my anger and sadness over the vote, which shows a complete disregard for the testimony of Dr. Christine Blasey Ford, those women convinced me that better days are coming. This is a huge loss, but it will make us stronger.<\/p>\n<p>Today is a dark day, but we will carry on. We must persist and speak the truth, now more than ever.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><strong>###<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cToday I traveled to Washington D.C. along with members of the City Council\u2019s Women\u2019s Caucus to protest the confirmation of Brett Kavanaugh to our Supreme Court.<\/p>\n<p>When the vote went down, I was outside the U.S. Supreme Court with Council Members Helen Rosenthal, Karen Koslowitz, Adrienne Adams, Vanessa Gibson, Alicka Ampry-Samuel along with thousands of Americans at a rally condemning the injustice of this appointment.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><strong><small><a href=\"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/press\/2018\/10\/06\/1646\/\">READ MORE<\/a><\/small><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1646","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1646","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/29"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1646"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1646\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1646"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1646"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1646"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}