Group Pushing SCOTUS Nom Buys Snapchat Filter For Correspondents’ Dinner

A young woman plays on her an iPhone 6 with the new funktions of the App snapshat, Germany, city of Seesen, 05 April 2016. Photo by: Frank May/picture-alliance/dpa/AP Images
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If you’re a SnapChat user attending the White House Correspondents Dinner Saturday, there will be a filter for you to broadcast your feelings about Supreme Court’s current vacancy, in addition to the app’s usual puppy face-selfies and rainbow vomit.

The Constitutional Responsibility Project — an advocacy group calling for Senate Republicans to drop their blockade on President Obama’s nominee Merrick Garland — purchased a geotagged Snapchat filter that will available Saturday to users around the Washington Hilton, where the dinner that brings together reporters, politicians, and celebrities is being held.

Snapchat is a social media app where users can send their followers photos that disappear after a set amount to time. The app also features filters that can be placed on top of the photos. Some political campaigns have also utilized the app by purchasing filters for supporters to use around rallies, events or elections.

The filter purchased by the Constitutional Responsibility Project for Saturday’s White House Correspondents Dinner features a banner that says “Journalists do their job. The Senate should do theirs. #WeNeedNine on the Supreme Court.”

It remains to be seen whether one of the big names attending the dinner — like Kendall Jenner, who has millions of followers — will use the filter. The group will also driving a billboard truck bearing its #WeNeedNine slogan around the venue.

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