Campus Progress on Alito...

Here's a message from Campus Progress on Bush's SCOTUS Nominee, Sam Alito:

Sandra Day O’Connor’s crucial swing seat on the Supreme Court is vacant. Justice O’Connor was a mainstream judge and she should be replaced with a mainstream judge. But President Bush caved to the extreme right and nominated Samuel Alito, a judge with a long record of right-wing extremism, to fill her seat.

If Judge Alito is confirmed, he’ll side with big business against workers. He’ll side with government invasions of privacy rights against individual liberties. And he’ll side with polluters against our environment.

If he sits on the court, Judge Alito’s extreme right-wing ideology will endanger some of our basic freedoms.

In response, CampusProgress.org, the youth outreach arm of the Center for American Progress, is launching a new student-oriented campaign to educate the public about the dangers that the confirmation of Samuel Alito to the Supreme Court poses to the future of all Americans. We are excited about this campaign, but we need your help.

If you are interested in submitting photos, or organizing a campus-wide Photo Petition drive, please let us know as soon possible. We will be providing organizers with all the materials they need, notifying local media and posting your Photo Petition submissions online. If you can’t host a formal Photo Petition drive, you can still participate by going to AlitosAmerica.org and sending photos to photos@campusprogress.org, where you can sign-on to a virtual petition and submit photos of yourselves holding signs explaining why you do not want your America to become Alito’s America.

Time is short, especially considering that the confirmation hearings begin January 9^th, but the consequences of inaction could last for decades. Together we can beat back the radical right’s judicial nominee.