On Monday when President Bush announced that he was naming John Roberts to be the next Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, he claimed that Judge Roberts has “earned the nation’s confidence” and that the American people “like what they see.”
Really? In fact, a wide variety of Americans who have studied Judge Roberts’s record don’t like what they see at all. A diverse array of groups, from the National Association of Social Workers to the Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund, representing countless Americans from all backgrounds, have announced their opposition to Roberts’s nomination because of his record on women’s rights, civil rights, privacy, and other issues. While the list of groups opposing Roberts will likely keep growing, here are some of the groups that have so far opposed his confirmation:
ADA Watch and the National Coalition for Disability Rights
Alliance for Justice
American Association for Affirmative Action
Americans United for Separation of Church and State
Equal Justice Society
Feminist Majority
Human Rights Campaign
League of United Latin American Citizens (LULAC)
MoveOn.org
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP)
NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund
Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund
NARAL Pro-Choice America
National Abortion Federation
National Asian Pacific American Women’s Forum
National Association of Social Workers
National Center for Lesbian Rights
National Council of Jewish Women
National Council of Women’s Organizations
National Gay and Lesbian Task Force
National Family Planning and Reproductive Health Association
National Latina Institute for Reproductive Health
National Organization for Women
National Partnership for Women and Families
National Women's Law Center
Parents, Families and Friends of Lesbians and Gays
People for the American Way
RAINBOW/PUSH Coalition
Religious Coalition for Reproductive Choice
The Shalom Center
Women’s Sports Foundation
