Alito snubs CBC's request for a meeting

As Democrats and Republicans spar over a potential filibuster by Democrats to block Samuel Alito’s nomination to the Supreme Court, members of the Congressional Black Caucus say Alito snubbed their recent request for a meeting.

“We never heard back from anyone in Alito’s office,” Myra Dandridge, a spokeswoman for the Congressional Black Caucus, told BlackAmericaWeb.com Monday.

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Last week, the Congressional Black Caucus announced its collective opposition to Alito, saying Alito’s conservative views could place longstanding civil rights legislation in jeopardy.

"The members of the CBC are concerned about Judge Alito's opinions, many in dissent, in race cases where his decisions have disproportionately affected African-Americans," Rep. Mel Watt (D-N.C.), chairman of the caucus, said last week.

http://www.blackamericaweb.com/site.aspx/bawnews/stateof/cbcalito121305

.. is the Congressional Black Caucus to see Alito filibustered out???

This guy is scary and he's an extremist ideologue.

on the Senate? Most of the members are in the House.

..are in the House, save Senator Barak Obama.

He should.

Sir, you will almost certainly be expected to participate in any filibuster against the nomination of Mr. Alito to the Supreme Court. Might I suggest that for your filibuster, you gain the permission of the author and read the book Crossing the Rubicon into the Congressional Record?

He didn't want them in his clubs in college either, don't ya remember??

If Alito won't meet with the ever professional CBC, he should be filibustered.

If the Senate Dems do not back the CBC, they don't deserve the majority. Period.

If a US proposed justice does not want to meet with the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation... then I read a bit more.

I am so stupid.

with the CBC (Canada). Then I read the thread. LOL