2,000 Faith Leaders Call for Senate to Confirm Judge Jackson, National Faith Leaders Speak Out at SCOTUS
FOR PLANNING PURPOSES
Wednesday, March 30, 2022
MEDIA CONTACT
Austin Schuler, aschuler@faithinpubliclife.org, 540-280-3393
2,000 Faith Leaders Call for Senate to Confirm Judge Jackson, National Faith Leaders Speak Out at SCOTUS
Press conference Wednesday, 12 PM outside Supreme Court building
Washington, D.C.– On Wednesday, March 30 at 12 p.m., national faith leaders will join together outside on the steps of the United States Supreme Court Building to speak out in support of Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson’s confirmation.
2,000 faith leaders from across the country have signed a letter addressed to the U.S. Senate calling for Judge Jackson’s nomination.
The letter reads in part, “As faith leaders from many traditions, we all hold firmly to the values of freedom, human dignity and equal justice under the law. That is why we call on the Senate to quickly confirm Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson to the Supreme Court of the United States.”
Co-Sponsoring Organizations include: Faith in Public Life, Catholics for Choice, Center for American Progress Religion and Faith, National Council of Jewish Women, NETWORK Lobby for Catholic Social Justice and People For the American Way
To livestream the event, click here.
To read the full letter, click here.
WHAT:
Faith Leaders Speak Out at the Supreme Court Building Calling on the Senate to Confirm Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson
WHEN:
Wednesday, March 30, 12 p.m.
WHERE:
One First Street, NE, Washington, D.C.
Outside Steps of Supreme Court
To livestream the event, click here.
WHO:
Rev. Leslie Watson Wilson, African American Ministers in Action, People For the American Way
Dana Gershon, President, National Council of Jewish Women
Rabbi David Saperstein, Former US Ambassador at large for International Religious Freedom
Shannon Russell, Director of Policy, Catholics for Choice
Mary J. Novak, Executive Director, NETWORK
Rev. Patrick Young, National Baptist Convention
Maggie Siddiqi, Senior Director, Religion and Faith, Center for American Progress
Imam Talib Shareef, Masjid Muhammad DC
Reverend Leslye Dwight, Community of Hope AME Church
Dr. Olan Johnson, Seventh Day Adventist Church
Reverend George Gilbert, Center for Racial Equity and Justice
Kanya Shabazz, Deputy Executive Director, Muslim Advocates
Reverend Doris Hicks, CME College of Bishops
Reverend Wanda Outlaw, NE Imani Fellowship
Reverend Susan Hendershot, President, Interfaith Power and Light
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