While People For has worked tirelessly to spread the word of Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson’s excellent qualifications to serve as our country’s next Supreme Court justice, we have ensured that peoples’ individual perspectives and stories are centered throughout.

In particular, we wanted to show how much a Justice Jackson would mean to different communities and across generations. This month, we’ve produced videos that focus on the rights of people with disabilities and on what this means to young people, particularly those of color. Watch the stories of Richard Ray and Addison Rose!

Immediately after President Biden announced his Supreme Court nomination of Judge Jackson, People For hosted a supporter-exclusive virtual event. People For supporters joined us for an important discussion featuring special guest Elie Mystal, justice correspondent for The Nation and a former litigator, alongside People For President Ben Jealous and our courts experts.

The lively conversation covered Judge Jackson’s sterling qualifications, what this historic moment means for people across the country, and how everyone can get involved to ensure that Judge Jackson has a swift and fair confirmation process. Tune in below to see some of the event’s highlights!

Alongside more than a dozen coalition partners, People For held a digital activist training to help empower everyone to get involved in the fight to confirm Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson as our next Supreme Court justice.

As the hearings progressed last week, our team updated the toolkit daily with new videos and content, including the best video clips that allow Judge Jackson’s brilliance to truly shine. Watch the full event, individual training sections, or highlights from the hearings!

Anti-democratic authoritarianism is on the rise—both around the world and here at home. Americans don’t often recognize authoritarianism at home because they don’t want to. “Black Americans have never had a problem seeing the threat,” writes People For President Ben Jealous.

As the national conversation has been consumed by Vladimir Putin’s needless, vicious war in Ukraine, Jealous has written extensively on the way that this global conversation reflects on the dangers our American democracy currently faces. From the Right’s relentless attacks on the freedom to vote to former President Trump’s attacks on our fair elections, there has been a lot to talk about—particularly about what comes next.

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