[Clintonfatigued]

That is a good point, but the judicial appointments of a Mayor are very different than that of a President. Municipal Judges oversee criminal law, family law, or traffic violations. They never handle Constitutional or Federal law. So there is a different criteria involved. Guiliani's priority in that case was to appoint people who were tough on crime, especially repeat offenders, and operate their courts honestly (of which there was a chronic shortage before he took office, thanks to his predecessors). So it's easy to draw the wrong conclusion from his appointment of many registered Democrats to the New York Courts.

[Jim Robinson]

LOL. Rigggght.

[Spiff]

That is a good point, but the judicial appointments of a Mayor are very different than that of a President. Municipal Judges oversee criminal law, family law, or traffic violations. They never handle Constitutional or Federal law. So there is a different criteria involved. Guiliani's priority in that case was to appoint people who were tough on crime, especially repeat offenders, and operate their courts honestly (of which there was a chronic shortage before he took office, thanks to his predecessors). So it's easy to draw the wrong conclusion from his appointment of many registered Democrats to the New York Courts.

I'm not agreeing with you. But I will say that there is a remote possibility that what you said is true. But, the reason that Giuliani's appointments of almost exclusively DEMOCRATS to such positions is brought up is to put to a lie the claims that Giuliani would make good judicial appointments. It demonstrates that there is absolutely no basis for such claims and that they are pure fantasy based upon a few of Giuliani's recent CampaignSpeak soundbites.