Lawmakers pledged to put President Nicolas Maduro on trial after a court friendly to his administration Thursday blocked the opposition’s campaign to recall the deeply unpopular president. A day of fiery speeches was briefly thrown into chaos in the afternoon when dozens of red-shirted protesters who had been heckling lawmakers outside the capitol since the morning burst onto the floor. The protesters began to file out of the building after Socialist party leader Jorge Rodriguez called on them to leave, leading the opposition to charge that Rodriguez was directing the protest. Legal action against the president would throw the country further into a constitutional crisis, but would probably not prevail as the administration controls the courts and other major institutions. Last week’s ruling suspending the recall vote drew condemnation from the U.S.