Posted on 02/05/2007 11:50:10 AM PST by MittFan08
Following is a transcript of Mayor Giuliani’s address today to the SC GOP’s executive committee in Columbia, South Carolina, with regard to the mayor’s judicial philosophy:
On the Federal judiciary I would want judges who are strict constructionists because I am. I’m a lawyer. I’ve argued cases in the Supreme Court. I’ve argued cases in the Court of Appeals in different parts of the country. I have a very, very strong view that for this country to work, for our freedoms to be protected, judges have to interpret not invent the Constitution. Otherwise you end up, when judges invent the constitution, with your liberties being hurt. Because legislatures get to make those decisions and the legislature in South Carolina might make that decision one way and the legislature in California a different one. And that’s part of our freedom and when that’s taken away from you that’s terrible. President Bush has the great model because I think as the President he did appointed (sic) some really good ones and both of them are former colleagues of mine - Chief Justice Roberts and Justice Alito. Justice Scalia is a former colleague of mine. Somebody that … I think Chief Justice Roberts is a great chief justice and he’s young and he can have a long career and that’s probably the reason the President and Vice President chose him. I think those are the kinds of justices I would appoint – Scalia, Alito and Roberts. If you can find anybody as good as that, you are very, very fortunate.
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But that was back before the constitution became nothing more than a rhorshock test for liberal USSC justices.
((((((PING)))))
"He acted in every way -- but law enforcement -- like a normal far-left liberal. Now he's calling himself a "strict constructionist," as he runs for the Republican nomination. And you believe him...?"
Honestly, I don't believe that Rudy is really a strict constuctionist. I'm not naive. But I *do* believe that he will appoint judges like Robert and Alito and that they will exercise the actual power regarding the interpretation of the constitution. Why do I believe that? Because Rudy is a team player- he realizes he needs the support of Republicans to win the election and he will need the support of his party members in Congress if he gets elected. So he will reach out to satisfy his party on the issue of judicial appointments without expressly renouncing his views.
I take it then that you thing that some of the current topics that are trying to make there way to the Supreme Court, like "gay" marriage, are NOT "social" issues (culture, socially derived mores)?
He supports Roe. He opposed the Second Amendment. But he's a "strict constructionist" -- he says, whatever that means.
If Rudy Giuliani is a strict constructionist, then John Kerry is a fiscal conservative.
Shades of Dobson's "Karl Rove Told Me Secret" during the Harriet Miers debacle.
The man's track record shows him to be a domestic enemy of the US Constitution.
If the GOP picks him, Hillary will be our next president.
So, Rudy has actually advocated the repeal of the Second Amendmend?! That's huge news! Why hasn't anyone else heard of this?
Oh, gee, THAT makes me FEEL so much better about voting for RINO-rudy. /sarc
I look at a politician's long-time track record, and RINO-rudy's is UNDOUBTEDLY RABIDLY ANT-GUN/ANTI-2A.
I vote by using my BRAIN, not my emotions, and my brain tells me to forget what rudy, or any other RINO now says, RIGHT BEFORE running for the highest office in the land.
With these sort of political scumbags (liberal dems and liberal RINOs), it's all about political expediency, and they are NOT going to fool most TRUE conservatives.
WRONG.. Rudy doesn't feel the 2nd amendment is UNalienable..
He's totally for alienating it..
To paraphrase John Wayne in McClintock
"What are you going to believe, your eyes or what I tell ya?"
Rudy McRomney your actions as a rino speak so loudly it's hard to hear your new conservative message!
It shows he's a lying bastard.
He could say "I'll appoint strict constuctionists" and I MIGHT buy it.
But nobody who support abortion or gun control is a "strict constructionist."
Wow. Scalia, Roberts, Alito, Thomas are all fantastic judges. If Rudy means those are the type of judges he will appoint at all levels of the judiciary, I'm on board. There is pretty much no more federal legislation that is going to do any good without the SCOTUS allowing it. Sending these social issues back to the states is where they belong anyhow.
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That kind of comment is so hyperbolic it lacks any credibility.
No, Rudy hasn't supported the repeal of the 2nd Amendment because Rudy isn't a real strict constructionist.
A strict constructionist doesn't necessarily agree with everything in the Constitution (and Rudy clearly hates guns), but if he disagrees with a portion, he supports the introduction an amendment to change it.
Judicial activists on the other hand just ignore or reinterpret the constitution to suit their political beliefs. That's what Rudy did, as District Attorney and as mayor -- he simply ignored the 2nd Amendment as he went after guns.
Ditto.
Rudy is way too liberal as McCain is mercurial (and liberal) but I will hold my nose and vote for either one of them before ANY democrat. National Security trumps all.
it's particularly important because people here seem not able to differentiate between the views a mayor of a city may hold on many issues, and how those views translate on the federal level. I've said before, Giuliani represented his city and the views of the people in it. I'm happy with strict constructionism regardless of someone's personal views on just about anything.
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