DeWine to be petitioned

Friday, civil rights and religious leaders plan to deliver 33,000 petitions signed by Ohioans against Judge Samuel Alito's nomination to the U.S. Supreme Court to the Columbus office of U.S. Sen. Mike DeWine.

Shaun Tucker, spokesman for People for the American Way, said the petitions urge DeWine to vote against Alito's confirmation.

Among those speaking about their opposition to Alito at a noon Statehouse news conference Friday will be Sybil McNabb, president of the Ohio Conference of the NAACP; Roger Madison, interim president of the Columbus Urban League; the Rev. Lee Anne Reat, senior pastor at St. John's Episcopal Church and former president of B.R.E.A.D.; and the Rev. Vincent Frosh, senior pastor of First A.M.E. Zion Church.