The New Agenda continues to be a voice for women…
May 11, 2009
by The New Agenda
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Who Will Fill the Seat?
When Supreme Court Justice Souter announced that he would step down, your organization sprang into action and issued a press release calling on President Obama to pick from a list of qualified women to fill that seat.
The New Agenda was the first national women’s organization to be quoted in The Washington Post, Politico, and The Huffington Post.
More recently, The New Agenda is also the “go to” national women’s organization cited in an article in an influential DC blog: The Hill is said to be at the center of the bullseye for those with influence in choosing the next Supreme Court justice.
The New Agenda, a women’s rights group formed by women who had met during Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign, came out with a list of 10 women they support.
As we noted in our press release, having a woman take this seat is so important:
“Women’s experiences, expectations, and lives are sufficiently different from men’s that men can not represent women no matter how sympathetic they may be,” said Nancy Hopkins, MIT biology professor – a leader in her field and New Agenda co-founder. “Women are best represented by women. The fact that only one of nine Supreme Court Justices is a woman is an enormous injustice to the women of the United States. We expect – we demand – that President Obama begin to correct this injustice.”
Last week, in an article in The USA Today, Supreme Court Justice Ginsburg mirrored Nancy Hopkins thoughts:
Ginsburg said having just one woman on the Supreme Court sends a disheartening message to Americans about women’s roles in society….
The “worst part,” Ginsburg said, is the image a single woman at the high court projects, particularly to young people visiting the court: “Young women are going to think, ‘Can I really aspire to that kind of post?’ “
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You have been mentioned on blog posts on TeamSarah.org several times
Great Bruce!
Could you pass on some of the links?
Amy-
I will send them to you in the future as i see them, but I couldnt recall the titles from the past, but there have been more than a half dozen, just know that a lot of people at Team Sarah are also supporters of NA, as I have also see T.S. mentioned in comments here- continue the good and righteous fight- your favorite troll( lol)
[...] out to (other than NOW) – The New Agenda. Check out, for example, all the press we got around the Supreme Court opening. Surely, there was huge void to be filled and we are filling [...]
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