GLBT Community Reaction to New Supreme Court Nominee

As many of you are by now aware, President Bush today named Judge Samuel Alito as his next nominee to the Supreme Court, replacing Harriet Miers. Here’s what the Human Rights Campaign and Lambda Legal have to say about the choice, seeing Alito as a choice of the far right and raising a number of “red flags” for GLBT Americans. The National Stonewall Democrats the grassroots Democratic organization, has raised concerns because of Alito’s conservative record, but urges cautious judgement. No statement by their Republican counterpart, the Log Cabin Republicans, as of this writing.