Hill Heat

Students won’t stand for the Trump administration’s relentless attacks on our education. Join the student governments of Georgetown, Howard, American, George Washington, George Mason, and Temple for the Hands Off Our Schools protest at the Department of Education (400 Maryland Ave SW) on Friday, April 4th at 4pm to make your voices heard.

Featuring Jamaal Bowman, Mary Beth Tinker, and LaJoy Johnson-Law.

If you’re organizing on behalf of a school or organization, please fill out this form! Please contact 978-594-7287 or 650-288-9683 if you have any questions.

Twenty-seven faith groups have filed suit against the U.S. Department of Homeland Security for the Trump Administration recission of protections from Immigrations and Customs Enforcement activities in sacred spaces and other sensitive locations.

The first hearing for Mennonite Church USA et al. v. United States Department of Homeland Security et al. is in Courtroom 24A, Prettyman United States Court House, on April 4, 2025, at 10:00 AM.

The court will provide access for the public to telephonically attend the hearing by dialing the Toll-Free Number: 833-990-9400 (Meeting ID: 117076001).

Join National City Christian Church for an interfaith prayer vigil on the eve of the first hearing of our historic lawsuit against the Department of Homeland Security’s rescission of the sensitive locations memo. The vigil will take place on Thursday, April 3rd, at 6:30pm at National City Christian Church in Washington, DC. Together, we will gather in solidarity, lifting prayers for justice, compassion, and the protection of immigrant communities. All are welcome to stand with us in this moment of faith and resolve.

The case is Mennonite Church USA et al. v. United States Department of Homeland Security et al..

The hearing is in Courtroom 24A, Prettyman United States Court House, on April 4, 2025, at 10:00 AM. The court will provide access for the public to telephonically attend the hearing by dialing the Toll-Free Number: 833-990-9400 (Meeting ID: 117076001).

‍RSVP to attend and invite others to join!

Thursday, April 3 | 6:30pm

National City Christian Church ‍5 Thomas Circle NW Washington DC 20005

Full committee hearing.

Nominees:

• Scott Kupor to be Director, Office of Personnel Management
• Eric Ueland to be Deputy Director for Management, Office of Management and Budget

Scott Kupor is a managing partner at venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz. Kupor is working to help AI “eat the world.”

Ueland is currently serving as acting chief of staff at OMB.

From Roll Call:

Ueland held several positions in the first Trump administration, including as undersecretary of state for civilian security, democracy and human rights and director of the Office of U.S. Foreign Assistance, both in the State Department; deputy director of the Domestic Policy Council and legislative affairs director.

Ueland served as GOP staff director of the Senate Budget Committee for four years under then-Chairman Michael B. Enzi, R-Wyo., stepping down from that position in late 2017.

Earlier, he spent a decade working for then-GOP Whip Don Nickles of Oklahoma and then-Majority Leader Bill Frist of Tennessee. He left the Hill after Frist’s retirement, which coincided with Democrats retaking the Senate after the 2006 midterms.

Join clergy, faith leaders and people of moral conscience in a powerful stand of prayer and moral resistance against injustice, corruption and oppression. Every first Wednesday of the month, we’ll gather in D.C. to examine the impacts of policy violence on the most vulnerable communities.

As you prepare to join us for Moral Witness Wednesday on April 2, 2025, at 11 am Eastern, understand that your presence embodies a powerful response to our nation’s urgent moral crisis. We gather as clergy, faith leaders, and people of conscience, guided by our shared spiritual traditions and sacred texts, to resist injustices harming the most vulnerable among us. The Prophet Micah challenges each generation, asking profoundly, “What does the Lord require of you? To act justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with your God.” (Micah 6:8). This call is our clarion imperative today.

In a moment when systemic racism, economic oppression, xenophobia, and attacks on human dignity are institutionalized in policy and practice, our moral witness is not only necessary—it is sacred. Our Wednesdays represent acts of public theology, truth-telling, and prophetic resistance, grounded in our understanding of scripture, the rich heritage of liberation and womanist theology, and the lived experiences of communities enduring injustice. As you sign up, you affirm your commitment to stand courageously, collectively voicing an unequivocal “No!” to hatred, oppression, and corruption and a determined “Yes!” to justice, love, and the sacred dignity of all humanity.

Thank you for answering this call and joining the ranks of prophetic voices nationwide who declare boldly, “We will not be silent anymore.”

Wednesday, April 2, 2025 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM ET

Supreme Court in DC, 1 1st St NE, Washington, DC 20543 Virtual/Online Locations

Moral Witness Wednesday: A National Call for Justice, Love, & Truth-Telling, convened by Bishop William J. Barber, II, and faith leaders nationwide. On Wednesday, April 2, 2025, at 11:00 AM ET, we will gather at the United States Supreme Court to speak prophetically against injustice, corruption, and oppression. Through prayer and moral resistance, we will declare that we will not be silent anymore. Clergy: Please wear full vestments of your faith tradition to symbolize our collective moral witness. Join us in this movement for justice and share this call to action with your communities. We must stand together.

A full committee hearing entitled “Rule by District Judges II: Exploring Legislative Solutions to the Bipartisan Problem of Universal Injunctions.”

Legislation:

• S. 1099, to limit the authority of district courts of the United States to provide injunctive relief. Josh Hawley, introduced March 25, 2025

The purpose of the hearing is to consider the nominations of Ms. Katharine MacGregor to be Deputy Secretary of the Interior and Mr. James Danly to be Deputy Secretary of Energy.

Nominees:

• Katharine MacGregor to be Deputy Secretary of the Interior
• James Danly to be Deputy Secretary of Energy

Kate MacGregor, who was Legislative Director for Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-VA) and also served as Professional Staff handling energy and public lands-related issues on the House Natural Resources Committee before being Deputy Secretary of the U.S. Department of the Interior in Trump’s first term, currently serves as the Vice President of Environmental Services for NextEra Energy.

“I don’t want to be too flippant about it, but they’re not fucking around,” said Joe Balash, who was Interior’s assistant secretary of lands and minerals management in the first Trump administration, about MacGregor. Balash was chief of staff for Alaska Sen. Dan Sullivan (R).

James Danly is head of Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP’s Energy Regulatory Group. Danly began his legal career as an associate in the energy regulation and litigation practice at Skadden in September 2014 and was admitted to the District of Columbia bar in 2015.

In that job, he worked on enforcement cases and other issues before FERC and represented clients such as Exelon Corp., FirstEnergy Corp., NextEra Energy Inc., PacifiCorp and Hydro-Québec, as well as two financial players with interest in energy, Barclays PLC and BlackRock Inc.

Two years later, in September of 2017, he was named general counsel at FERC by the Trump White House. He then served as a FERC Commissioner.

Full committee hearing.

Witness:

• Sean Duffy, United States Secretary of Transportation

A subcommittee hearing with the fascistic title, “Unleashing the Golden Age of American Energy Dominance.”

Witnesses:

• Democratic witness: Megan Gibson, Senior Attorney, Southern Environmental Law Center
• Matthew Jensen, Director, Office for Fiscal and Regulatory Analysis, America First Policy Institute
• Glen Sweetnam, Distinguished Fellow, Energy Policy Research Foundation
• Kevin Dayaratna, Acting Director, Chief Statistician, and Senior Research Fellow, Center for Data Analysis, The Heritage Foundation

Subcommittee hearing.

Witnesses:

• Elliot Brandt, CEO, American Israel Public Affairs Committee
• Talin Yacoubian, Co-Chair, Armenian Assembly of America
• Ian Bickford, President, American University of Afghanistan
• Peter Yeo, President, Better World Campaign
• Paul Hazen, Executive Director, U.S. Overseas Cooperative Development Council
• Bill O’Keefe, Executive Vice President, Mission, Mobilization, & Advocacy, Catholic Relief Services
• Blake Selzer, Director of Government Affairs, Edesia Nutrition
• Mark Viso, President and CEO, Food for the Hungry
• Sania Nishtar, CEO, Gavi, The Vaccine Alliance
• Giulia McPherson, Executive Director, Global Campaign for Education-US
• Chris Collins, President & CEO, Friends of the Global Fight Against AIDS, TB and Malaria,
• Chris Whatley, Executive Director, The HALO Trust
• Daniel Twining, President, International Republican Institute
• Stan Soderstrom, Executive Director Emeritus, Kiwanis
• Shari Bryan, Executive Director, Mines Advisory Group – US
• Spencer Knoll, Director of U.S. Policy and Advocacy, Malaria No More
• Tamara Cofman Wittes, President, National Democratic Institute
• Jennifer Cervantes, Rio Grande Valley Sugar Growers
• John Nanni, Member, Rotary’s Polio Eradication Advocacy Task Force for the United States
• Carol Jenkins, CEO, World Learning