{"id":239,"date":"2006-01-12T11:35:43","date_gmt":"2006-01-12T17:35:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/?\r\n\r\np=239"},"modified":"2006-01-12T21:08:36","modified_gmt":"2006-01-13T03:08:36","slug":"what-he-said","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/nada\/dump-duhbya\/what-he-said\/","title":{"rendered":"What He Said"},"content":{"rendered":"

Alito’s club ties prove <\/p>\n

troubling decades later<\/a> Ruben Navarrette Jr.<\/p>\n

I’m troubled by three things in all this: that Alito could have been a member of <\/p>\n

such an exclusionary group in the first place; that he saw fit to brag<\/em> about being a member to win favor with the right-wing <\/p>\n

hard-liners in the Reagan Justice Department, many of whom took on the dismantling of affirmative action programs as a pet project; and <\/p>\n

that he refuses to own up to this now by claiming that he doesn’t remember the first thing about the group.<\/p>\n

That, I don’t like.<\/p>\n

Alito Disavows <\/p>\n

Controversial Group<\/a>
\nNominee Touted His Membership in 1985
\nBy Dale Russakoff, Washington Post Staff Writer<\/p>\n

As a Princeton <\/p>\n

alumnus and professional basketball player, Bill Bradley in 1973 renounced his membership in Concerned Alumni of Princeton, calling it a <\/p>\n

“right wing” organization that opposed the admission of women and minorities to the school.<\/p>\n

Two years later, another distinguished <\/p>\n

alumnus and future U.S. senator, Bill Frist, co-wrote a report denouncing the group for “grossly inaccurate” attacks on the school’s <\/p>\n

policies and a “narrow ideological perspective” that had done “a disservice to the university.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Alito’s club ties prove troubling decades later Ruben Navarrette Jr. I’m troubled by three things in all this: that Alito could have been a member of such an exclusionary group in the first place; that he saw fit to brag about being a member to win favor with the right-wing hard-liners in the Reagan Justice … Continue reading What He Said<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-239","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dump-duhbya"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=239"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=239"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=239"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=239"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}