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How the Kavanaugh Protests Reached the National Stage

posted on October 1, 2018

For The New Yorker, Emily Witt writes about protests in opposition to Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh, who has been accused of sexual assault or misconduct by at least three women. Sister Quincy Howard, a nun who was at the protests with a group of religious leaders, said, “He is trying to maintain this veneer of perfection and accomplishment, and that is not the way that you find Jesus. The way you find Jesus is by repenting and admitting the things that you did that you’re ashamed of.” The Rev. Cari Jackson, a member of the Religious Coalition for Reproductive Choice, led a prayer for the group: “One who works miracles, we call on you to work miracles today in the halls of justice.”

Read at The New Yorker