Hundreds of Yale students staged a protest in the halls of the New Haven university to demand a fair and impartial investigation into allegations of sexual misconduct against Supreme Court nominee and Yale alumnus Brett Kavanaugh.
The law school cancelled 31 classes on Monday as students packed the halls, wore all black and sat in silence as part of a statement.
In Washington DC, a bus carried protesters to the Supreme Court and Senate buildings to demonstrate.
Yale Law School student Sam Peltz told Reuters the protests were to encourage senators to fairly investigate the allegations, which Mr Kavanaugh has denied.
"We want these allegations to be taken fully seriously by our senators and we are urging them to give as much process's individuals as possible, to fully hear their stories and to consider what they're saying before they elevate Brett Kavanaugh to the highest court in the land," he said.
On Monday, the president's Supreme Court nominee Mr Kavanaugh rejected the accusations of sexual assault when he was young and said he would not withdraw from consideration for the high court.
He charged the allegations that he assaulted women more than three decades ago were part of an unfounded "last minute character assassination" aimed at forcing him to withdraw.
"The coordinated effort to destroy my good name will not drive me out," he said in a statement to the Senate Judiciary Committee.
"There is now a frenzy to come up with something - anything - that will block this process and a vote on my confirmation from occurring."
Republicans want to push the nomination ahead toward a vote, while Democrats are calling for the committee to halt the process so a proper investigation can be made into the accusations.
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