Dubya's newest Supreme Court nominee, federal appeals court judge Samuel Alito, is no Harriet Miers -- which may be good for right-wingers, but not so much for us Blackfolk, other communities of color, progressives, and even moderates. And I doubt those of us on the left will be swayed as more is revealed about Alito's history on the bench -- despite his highly visible trip to the Capitol Rotunda where the body of Rosa Parks lay in state.
So, will he soon being donning the butterfly collar of outgoing Justice Sandra Day O'Connor? Or will he be duly Borked? Only time will tell.
Either way, it seems that the NAACP is non-plussed by his nomination and track record as it relates to civil rights and other salient issues that impact the lives and livelihoods of Blackfolk.
In fact, yesterday USA Today quoted NAACP president Bruce Gordon as saying, "I sense that this is a nomination that may not be consistent with the America that Rosa Parks sat down to create". He went on to say that "[i]f I see that the extreme right celebrates this nomination, that certainly puts my antenna up."
Ditto.
The lives of blackfolk will continue to erode as long as Bush & Co. run the country. Samuel Alito will do the bidding of the right-wing, and blackfolk, women and the poor will suffer.
Posted by: LAW | Tuesday, November 08, 2005 at 06:41 PM