Paighten Harkins(Francisco Kjolseth | The Salt Lake Tribune) Demonstrators gather in Salt Lake City, uniting with Women’s March rallies happening in Washington D.C. and around the country on Saturday, Oct. 17, 2020, to signal their opposition to President Donald Trump and his agenda, including his push to fill the seat of late Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg before election day.
(Francisco Kjolseth | The Salt Lake Tribune) Akasha Schmidt, 9, joins her mother Shalee and other demonstrators gathered in Salt Lake City, as they unite with Women’s March rallies happening in Washington D.C. and around the country on Saturday, Oct. 17, 2020, to signal their opposition to President Donald Trump and his agenda, including his push to fill the seat of late Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg before election day.
(Francisco Kjolseth | The Salt Lake Tribune) Sisters Laura, left, and Sarah Bush, listen to speakers at Salt Lake City Hall alongside demonstrators gathered for one of the Women’s March rallies happening in Washington D.C. and around the country on Saturday, Oct. 17, 2020, to signal their opposition to President Donald Trump and his agenda, including his push to fill the seat of late Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg before election day.
(Francisco Kjolseth | The Salt Lake Tribune) Demonstrators gather in Salt Lake City, uniting with Women’s March rallies happening in Washington D.C. and around the country on Saturday, Oct. 17, 2020, to signal their opposition to President Donald Trump and his agenda, including his push to fill the seat of late Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg before election day.
(Francisco Kjolseth | The Salt Lake Tribune) Laura Bush joins demonstrators gathered in Salt Lake City, uniting with Women’s March rallies happening in Washington D.C. and around the country on Saturday, Oct. 17, 2020, to signal their opposition to President Donald Trump and his agenda, including his push to fill the seat of late Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg before election day.
(Francisco Kjolseth | The Salt Lake Tribune) Demonstrators gather in Salt Lake City, uniting with Women’s March rallies happening in Washington D.C. and around the country on Saturday, Oct. 17, 2020, to signal their opposition to President Donald Trump and his agenda, including his push to fill the seat of late Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg before election day.
(Francisco Kjolseth | The Salt Lake Tribune) Kris Bowman, dressed as late Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, joins demonstrators gather in Salt Lake City, as they unite with Women’s March rallies happening in Washington D.C. and around the country on Saturday, Oct. 17, 2020, to signal their opposition to President Donald Trump and his policies, including his push to fill the seat of RBG.
(Francisco Kjolseth | The Salt Lake Tribune) Demonstrators gather in Salt Lake City, uniting with Women’s March rallies happening in Washington D.C. and around the country on Saturday, Oct. 17, 2020, to signal their opposition to President Donald Trump and his agenda, including his push to fill the seat of late Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg before election day.
(Francisco Kjolseth | The Salt Lake Tribune) Demonstrators gather in Salt Lake City, uniting with Women’s March rallies happening in Washington D.C. and around the country on Saturday, Oct. 17, 2020, to signal their opposition to President Donald Trump and his agenda, including his push to fill the seat of late Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg before election day.
(Francisco Kjolseth | The Salt Lake Tribune) Demonstrators gather in Salt Lake City, uniting with Women’s March rallies happening in Washington D.C. and around the country on Saturday, Oct. 17, 2020, to signal their opposition to President Donald Trump and his agenda, including his push to fill the seat of late Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg before election day.
(Francisco Kjolseth | The Salt Lake Tribune) Demonstrators gather in Salt Lake City, uniting with Women’s March rallies happening in Washington D.C. and around the country on Saturday, Oct. 17, 2020, to signal their opposition to President Donald Trump and his agenda, including his push to fill the seat of late Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg before election day.
(Francisco Kjolseth | The Salt Lake Tribune) Demonstrators gather in Salt Lake City, uniting with Women’s March rallies happening in Washington D.C. and around the country on Saturday, Oct. 17, 2020, to signal their opposition to President Donald Trump and his agenda, including his push to fill the seat of late Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg before election day.
(Francisco Kjolseth | The Salt Lake Tribune) Demonstrators gather in Salt Lake City, uniting with Women’s March rallies happening in Washington D.C. and around the country on Saturday, Oct. 17, 2020, to signal their opposition to President Donald Trump and his agenda, including his push to fill the seat of late Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg before election day.
(Francisco Kjolseth | The Salt Lake Tribune) Lex Scott, founder of the Utah chapter of Black Lives Matter, notices all the “Make America Kind Again,” signs stating what they really should say is “make America kind for the first time,” as she speaks on the steps of the Utah Capitol. Demonstrators gathered in Salt Lake City, uniting with Women’s March rallies happening in Washington D.C. and around the country on Saturday, Oct. 17, 2020, to signal their opposition to President Donald Trump and his agenda, including his push to fill the seat of late Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg before election day.
(Francisco Kjolseth | The Salt Lake Tribune) Demonstrators gather in Salt Lake City, uniting with Women’s March rallies happening in Washington D.C. and around the country on Saturday, Oct. 17, 2020, to signal their opposition to President Donald Trump and his agenda, including his push to fill the seat of late Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg before election day.
(Francisco Kjolseth | The Salt Lake Tribune) Brittney Maxfield Cobbley joins demonstrators gather in Salt Lake City, as they unite with Women’s March rallies happening in Washington D.C. and around the country on Saturday, Oct. 17, 2020, to signal their opposition to President Donald Trump and his agenda, including his push to fill the seat of late Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg before election day.
(Francisco Kjolseth | The Salt Lake Tribune) Demonstrators gather in Salt Lake City, uniting with Women’s March rallies happening in Washington D.C. and around the country on Saturday, Oct. 17, 2020, to signal their opposition to President Donald Trump and his agenda, including his push to fill the seat of late Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg before election day.
(Francisco Kjolseth | The Salt Lake Tribune) Demonstrators gather in Salt Lake City, uniting with Women’s March rallies happening in Washington D.C. and around the country on Saturday, Oct. 17, 2020, to signal their opposition to President Donald Trump and his agenda, including his push to fill the seat of late Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg before election day.
(Francisco Kjolseth | The Salt Lake Tribune) Natalie Burt carries her son Britain, 4, as they join other demonstrators gathered in Salt Lake City, uniting with Women’s March rallies happening in Washington D.C. and around the country on Saturday, Oct. 17, 2020, to signal their opposition to President Donald Trump and his agenda, including his push to fill the seat of late Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg before election day.
(Francisco Kjolseth | The Salt Lake Tribune) Ashley Marshall joins other demonstrators gathered in Salt Lake City, as they unite with Women’s March rallies happening in Washington D.C. and around the country on Saturday, Oct. 17, 2020, to signal their opposition to President Donald Trump and his agenda, including his push to fill the seat of late Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg before election day.
A few hundred people gathered Saturday in downtown Salt Lake City for a Women’s March to protest President Donald Trump and his push to fill the late Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s open Supreme Court seat before the presidential election next month.
Trump has nominated Amy Coney Barrett, a conservative appeals court judge, to fill the vacancy left by Ginsburg, a feminist icon. If confirmed, Barrett will likely rule on cases involving high-profile issues such as health care and abortion.
At least one woman paid homage to Ginsburg by wearing a black robe, complete with a white collar, and holding a sign that read, “I dissent.”
The group of about 250 first met at Salt Lake City Hall before marching north to the Capitol, where attendees heard from speakers. Similar marches were held nationwide.
Along the route, protesters held signs that said “Make America Kind Again” and “My Body My Choice."
Lex Scott, the leader of Black Live Matter Utah, remarked at the take on the Trump campaign slogan “Make America Great Again,” that the signs should instead read, “Make America Kind for the First Time.”
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Some in Saturday’s crowd sported the pink knit hats that became popular during the first Women’s March in Washington, D.C., after Trump was sworn into office in 2017, when a crowd of an estimated half a million came to the National Mall in protest.
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Paighten is an Enterprise reporter at The Salt Lake Tribune. She covers a variety of topics, including business, health, growth and the legal justice system — sometimes all at once. She is from southern Oklahoma, and lived and worked in the state, most recently at the Tulsa World, before starting at The Tribune in October 2017.