Wednesday, January 11, 2006

Alito: 'I Do Not Recall' Senator Kennedy did a good job today in pressing Alito on his membership in Concerned Alumni of Princeton and outlining the group's anti-women, anti-minority stances and pronouncements. Here's the transcript of the exchange. A sample of Kennedy's remarks and Alito's claim not to remember anything about CAP though he cited his membership as a conservative credential in a 1985 job application to the Reagan Administration Justice Department: KENNEDY: And did you read a letter from CAP mailed in 1984 -- this is the year before you put CAP on your application -- to every living alumni -- to every living alumni, so I assume you received it -- which declared: "Princeton is no longer the university you knew it to be." As evidence, among other reasons, it cited the fact that admission rates for African-Americans and Hispanics were on the rise, while those of alumni children were failing and Princeton's president at a time urged that the then all-male eating clubs to admit females. And in December 1984, President William Bowen responded by sending his own letter. This is the president of Princeton responded by sending his own letter to all of the alumni in which he called CAP's letter "callous and outrageous." This letter was the subject of a January 1985 Wall Street Journal editorial congratulating President Bowen for engaging his critics in a free and open debate. This would be right about the time that you told Senator Kyl you probably joined the organization. Did you receive the Bowen letter or did you read the Wall Street Journal, which was pretty familiar reading for certainly a lot of people that were in the Reagan administration? ALITO: Senator, I've testified to everything that I can recall relating to this, and I do not recall knowing any of these things about the organization. And many of the things that you've mentioned are things that I have always stood against. 10:11:18 PM    comment []

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