ADVISORY/Religious Liberty Advocates and Leading Catholics Voice Concern over Religious Test on Judicial Nominees.Business Editors/Assignment Desks ADVISORY...for Tuesday Tuesday: see week. (Sept. 2) WASHINGTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Aug. 29, 2003 On Tuesday, September September: see month. 2, leaders of the religious liberty advocacy The act of Pleading or arguing a case or a position; forceful persuasion. community and prominent Catholic leaders will participate in a panel discussion concerning whether an unconstitutional unconstitutional adj. referring to a statute, governmental conduct, court decision or private contract (such as a covenant which purports to limit transfer of real property only to Caucasians) which violate one or more provisions of the U. S. Constitution. religious test imposed on judicial nominees has created the "appearance of impropriety Appearance of impropriety is a term often used in reference to a situation whose ethics is deemed questionable. It means that any layperson, without knowledge of the facts, would assume that something he/she saw or heard was inappropriate or a violation of a rule/regulation. ." Participants will address the specific criticisms and concerns on the substance of the religious test debate and will take questions.
WHO: Moderator: Jay Sekulow, Chief Counsel,
American Center for Law and Justice
Participants:
Robert Destro, former U.S. Civil Rights Commissioner and
former Dean of the Catholic University Law School
Nathan Diament, Director of Public Policy, Union of
Orthodox Jewish Congregations of America
Bernard Dobranski, Dean, Ave Maria School of Law and
former Dean of the Catholic University Law School
Ray Flynn, President of Your Catholic Voice, former Mayor
of Boston and former U.S. Ambassador to the Vatican
Kevin Hasson, President, the Becket Fund for Religious
Liberty
Bowie Kuhn, Vice Chairman, the Ave Maria List and former
Commissioner of Major League Baseball.
WHAT: Panel Discussion and Q&A on substance of the religious
test debate
WHERE: Mansfield Room (S-207), U.S. Capitol Building
WHEN: Tuesday, September 2, 2003
9:30 a.m. EDT
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