There are those who will honor her now in the morning while working to overturn her legacy in the afternoon. President Bush honored her and then nominated Samuel Alito, a states' rights, strict-constructionist throwback to a bygone age, to the Supreme Court. Alito is a "favorite" of the conservative right wing in the nation that has stood on the opposite side of history from Rosa Parks. His legal foundation is clearly adverse to civil rights, women's right to self-determination and labor. He has even earned himself the nickname "Scalito," after Justice Antonin Scalia, the court's most radical reactionary.
Well, Rev. Jackson is certainly entitled to his opinion, but if Alito is adverse to civil rights can we safely assume that Jackson believes that the 56 Senate Democrats who joined with 44 Republicans to unanimously appoint Alito to the court of appeals in 1990 were "adverse" to civil rights as well?
That's probably a good question for Senator Schumer as well.
After all, if Alito truly is "adverse" to civil rights then he shouldn't have been appointed to any level of the federal judiciary.