US Senate to vote on Trump's Supreme Court nominee Kavanaugh

On Thursday, about 300 protesters, including sexual assault victims, were arrested after protesting on Capitol Hill against the nomination of Kavanaugh, chanting "Believe survivors."

In another development, more than 2,400 law professors signed on a letter to the Senate on Thursday, saying Kavanaugh lacks judicial temperament and is disqualified from sitting on the nation's highest court, according to a Washington Post report.

"At the Senate hearings on Thursday, September 27, 2018, the Honorable Brett Kavanaugh displayed a lack of judicial temperament that would be disqualifying for any court, and certainly for elevation to the highest court of this land," the letter reads.

Both Kavanaugh and his sexual assault accuser, university professor Christine Ford, testified before the 21-member Senate Judiciary Committee in an 8-hour-long hearing last week.

Ford said she was 100 percent certain that Kavanaugh attacked her during a gathering of high school students in early 1980s, and Kavanaugh said he was also 100 percent certain that he never attacked anyone, calling the allegations "a calculated and orchestrated political hit."

On Thursday night, Kavanaugh said in an op-ed published by the Wall Street Journal that he might have been "too emotional" in the hearing.

"I was very emotional last Thursday, more so than I have ever been. I might have been too emotional at times," he wrote in the op-ed headlined "I am an Independent, Impartial Judge."

The US public is sharply split over Kavanaugh's confirmation. The results of a Quinnipiac poll released on Monday show 48 percent of Americans are against the confirmation of Kavanaugh's nomination, while 42 percent are supportive.

Aside from Ford, several other women, including two who had also come forward, have accused Kavanaugh of sexually assaulting or harassing them during his high school and university years. Kavanaugh has denied the accusations.