Civil rights groups opposing President-elect Bush’s choice for attorney general, John Ashcroft, are demanding that Democratic senators vote against the nomination. The groups will join with organized labor to confront Democrats at public events to win commitments of a “no” vote. Ashcroft has drawn opposition for his anti-abortion views and for leading a successful drive to defeat the nomination of a black Missouri Supreme Court judge, Ronnie White, to the federal bench. Reverend Jesse Jackson said yesterday the campaign also will target New Jersey Governor Christine Todd Whitman, Bush’s nominee to head the Environmental Protection Agency. Whitman has drawn the ire of blacks because of racial profiling by the New Jersey state police, and because the Governor personally frisked a black youth for a photo op.