Justice the Video
Published May 27, 2009 @ 07:54AM PT
The Coalition for Constitutional Values, a national coalition of the nation's leading nonprofit and advocacy organizations, announced today that it will begin airing "Justice" a new 30-second television spot that will run on national network news and cable news starting today. The Coalition for Constitutional Values, whose members represent millions of Americans, believes it is important that the American people know about the qualities of their Supreme Court justices.
The new spot is part of a broader public education campaign launched by the Coalition for Constitutional Values, co-chaired by the Leadership Conference on Civil Rights, Alliance for Justice and People for the American Way. The Coalition hopes the spot will introduce the American public to Judge Sotomayor who has experience in nearly every aspect of the law, having served as a big-city prosecutor and a corporate litigator, a federal trial judge and an appellate judge.
"In selecting Judge Sotomayor, the president has nominated a candidate of sterling credentials who will uphold the Constitution and the law," said Nan Aron, co-chair of the Coalition for Constitutional Values and president of Alliance for Justice. "We commend President Obama for choosing a brilliant and fair-minded jurist to serve on our nation's highest court. Judge Sotomayor is precisely the kind of nominee we need - one who, as President Obama described, ‘has the intellectual firepower but also a little bit of a common touch and has a practical sense of how the world works.'"
Visit http://www.afj.org/check-the-facts/supreme-court-watch/ to watch the 30 second video.
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