Sam Alito was a member of the Concerned Alumni of Princeton ("CAP"), and trumpeted this fact with great pride on his 1985 job application.
The MSM whitewashes CAP is generally as "a conservative group." In truth, CAP was dedicated to protesting the fact that women and minorities were being admitted to Princeton. CAP was not conservative, but reactionary.
CAP fought Princeton's decision to admit women and minorities. It published a magazine, "Prospect," devoted to this goal and -- according to The Daily Princetonian -- "In 1973, CAP mailed a letter to parents of freshmen implying that their sons and daughters were living in 'cohabitation,' rather than simply coeducational dorms. In 1975, a CAP board member tried to disrupt Annual Giving by writing to alumni in the business community to consider whether their gifts were 'being used to undermine, subvert, and otherwise discredit the very businesses which are helping fund private education.'"
Stephen Dujack, former Associate Editor of the Princeton Alumni Weekly, has observed that "In 1985, Alito belonged to a group that was dedicated to pointlessly interfering with the functioning of a university because its student body had representative numbers of women and minorities, as required by law. A group which, for its entire existence, used as its only tactics dissembling and dirty tricks; the list above doesn't begin to do justice in describing the organization's destructiveness. A lot of people were hurt in the process. A great university was damaged."
"Prospect" was founded by CAP, which was co-chaired by Asa Bushnell and Shelby Cullom Davis. In "Prospect," Davis wrote "In my day, (Dean of Student Affairs) Andy Brown would have been called to task for his open love affair with minorities." Another "Prospect" article "In Defense of Elitism" lamented "People nowadays just don't seem to know their place." It's pages whined, "Everywhere one turns blacks and hispanics are demanding jobs simply because they're black and hispanic, the physically handicapped are trying to gain equal representation in professional sports, and homosexuals are demanding that government vouchsafe them the right to bear children."
CAP did not oppose affirmative action. It advocated for quotas that favored white men.
Alito did not just accidentally find himself a CAP member by youthful indiscretion. Well into his mid-30s, Alito bragged about his CAP membership in a 1985 job application with the Reagan administration. Alito identified his CAP membership -- along with the fact that the "greatest influence" on his philosophy also included the National Review of the early 1960s, which was equally opposed to civil rights -- as qualifications for a high-level government position.
In his mid-30s, Alito chose to brag about, not apologize for, his membership in CAP.
Recently, in the questionnaire Alito submitted to the Senate Judiciary Committee, he wrote this about CAP: "Concerned Alumni of Princeton . . . was a group of Princeton alumni. A document I recently reviewed
reflects that I was a member of the group in the 1980s. Apart from that document, I have no recollection of being a member, of attending meetings, or otherwise participating in the activities of the group. The group has no current officers from whom more information may be obtained."
In 1985, Alito's CAP membership was one of his distinguishing qualifications for the government post he applied for, and now 20 years later he has no recollection of that membership?
Alito cannot be trusted and must be filibustered!