The Republican held Senate Judiciary Committee has moved their Supreme Court Nominee to a full vote in the senate, following a morning filled with protests.

The nomination of Brett Kavanaugh was voted on in the committee on a party line vote of 11-10, after democratic senators who had left the meeting in protest returned.

The vote was delayed more than 20 minutes as republican senators discussed a following investigation by the FBI into any allegations on sexual assault that Kavanaugh has had against him.

The investigation, which Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, called a gentleman and women’s agreement, would delay the vote no more than one week. The investigation will only move forward if both the Senate majority and minority leaders are in favor of the investigation, and could possibly tip the currently undecided votes within the Senate of which there are currently three critically important undecided votes.

Two Republicans, Lisa Murkowski of Alaska and Susan Collins of Maine, have not said whether they support the nominee. Joe Manchin, D-W.V., has also not voiced his intentions on the vote.

The hearing came after Christine Blasey Ford, a California professor who has accused Kavanaugh of sexual assault, testified before the committee. Since Ford’s accusations became public, two other women have accused Kavanaugh of sexual assault.

Both Democrats and some Republicans said they believed Ford’s story during the testimony. However, Republicans still stated their support for Kavanaugh, calling the attacks partisan in nature.

“God help us all,” said Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C. “If the new standard for the committee is that there’s no presumption of anything, that you have to prove why somebody would accuse you, not just say I didn’t do it and here’s why I didn’t do it, but you have to prove the motives of your accuser. God help us all.

“This has never been about the truth,” he said. “This has been about delay and destruction and if we reward this  it is the end of good people wanting to be judges.”

Sen. Cory Booker, D-N.J., later responded, saying the allegations were anything but partisan.

“I have such respect for the ranking member,” Booker said. “I was in the room when we discussed, literally hours after I was aware that the letter existed about what her motivations were. It was a private room, and forgive me for speaking out of if the ranking member believes I am, but her entire sense of decency and honor had nothing to do with politics. Politics was not mentioned. Her entire concerns were about the dignity and the humanity and the respect for Dr. Ford.”

While Graham made his intentions clear, not every Republican was a guaranteed yes vote going into the day. When the morning began, the question still remained: Would Arizona Republican Jeff Flake, who had opposed Trump on a few key issues since his presidency began, vote to confirm Kavanaugh in the committee meeting?

Shortly into the morning, Flake announced he would vote to move Kavanaugh forward, inciting protesters to crowd an elevator he was trying to leave in.

“What you are doing is allowing someone who actually violating a woman to sit on the Supreme Court. This is not tolerable,” the unidentified woman told Flake.

Democratic senators also took part in the protests following Flake’s announcement. Senators Kamala Harris of California, Mazie Hirono of Hawaii, Sheldon Whitehouse of Rhode Island, Richard Blumenthal of Connecticut and Patrick Leahy of Vermont left the meeting at around 9:53 a.m., 20 minutes after Flake’s announcement he would vote on Kavanaugh moving out of Committee. .