NAACP holding fire on nominee despite concerns
By Brian DeBose
THE WASHINGTON TIMES
November 2, 2005
The head of the NAACP says the exuberant response of the "extreme right" to the Supreme Court nomination of Judge Samuel A. Alito Jr. gives him concerns about the pick, but he said the group will not make a rash decision to oppose it.
"The NAACP has every obligation to be thorough and not overreact or make a decision without all the information, but I sense this is a nomination that may not be consistent with the America Rosa Parks sat down to create," said Bruce S. Gordon, new president of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People.
The group has just begun to look at Judge Alito's credentials, and an NAACP official said it is troubled by his membership in the Federalist Society and by his rulings in the areas of police brutality, employment law and gender equality, particularly with respect to federal Title IX rules.
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