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Jesse Jackson: Alito 'Adverse to Civil Rights'

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Democratic Party activist Rev. Jesse Jackson is blasting Bush Supreme Court nominee Sam Alito as a "states rights" advocate who is "clearly adverse to civil rights" and who would have opposed Rosa Parks, the civil rights icon who is being remembered this week for helping to overturn legal segregation.

Registering his complaint in a column in today's Chicago Sun-Times, Jackson noted: "President Bush honored [Parks] and then nominated Samuel Alito," who Jackson described as "a states' rights, strict-constructionist throwback to a bygone age."

Jackson charged that 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," he declared.

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  The influential Democrat didn't say how he reconciled his opposition to Alito with his ongoing support for Sen. Robert Byrd, the former Ku Klux Klansman who frequently uses the N-word in TV interviews and who led the filibuster against the 1964 Civil Rights Act.

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