Posted on 02/19/2007 10:50:00 AM PST by pissant
Now that Rudy Giuliani is in, his conservative critics are going to go to town on him from abortion to marriage to yes, even judges. Just recently as this weekend, Giuliani said he would appoint judges like Scalia, Alito and Roberts. That's music to the ears of social conservatives. But, less than two years ago, in July of 2005, when he appeared on Fox's Hannity and Colmes he said this about judges:
Host Alan Colmes: "Now, Roe versus -- now, you are pro-choice. How important is it to you as a pro-choice Republican to have a pro-choice on the court as someone...
Giuliani:"That is not the critical factor. And what's important to me is to have a very intelligent, very honest, very good lawyer on the court. And [John Roberts] fits that category, in the same way Justice Ginsburg fit that category. I mean, she was -- she maybe came at it from a very different political background, very qualified lawyer, very smart person. Lots of Republicans supported her. I expect, and listening to Senator Nelson, I expect that John Roberts will get support from a lot of Democrats."
Now, fast forward to last night on Hannity and Colmes. Here's Giuliani today on judges:
"I think the appointment of judges that I would make would be very similar to if not exactly the same as the last two judges that were appointed. Chief Justice Roberts is somebody I work with, somebody I admire. Justice Alito, someone I knew when he was US attorney, also admire. If I had been president over the last four years, I can't think of any-- that I'd do anything different with that."
So, let's try and make sense of this. Roberts is good, Alito is good. Ginsburg? Well, according to Giuliani she's just like Roberts when it comes to being very honest, a very good lawyer and very intelligent. So it doesn't seem he has a problem with judges like that even if they're liberal. Will this past statement hold up under the bright lights of scrutiny from social conservatives in Iowa, New Hampshire, South Carolina, etc. More developments to come.
Worse than Willie PING
What do you think Hillary would do?
They sure look a lot alike...and you never see them together...
I doubt it, I don't think an RBG type would be liberal enough for him.
Judges appointed by Hillary will be much, much worse. Remember that when you are chanting "Purity over Victory!"
This is a tough issue for Giuliani to overcome. Especially with the court loaded with 4 young Conservatives and 5 very much older liberals. Electing a conservative makes the possibility of a conservative court very likely during the next term. This is much more than about one issue as Giuliani fans like to poo-poo about.
Ginsburg, isn't she in favor of international law and....let me go check something. brb
Appoint many of the same kind of judges Guiliani would. Either way, our Constitution is screwed.
He has praised their qualifications, but he has never articulated anything other than some boiler plate about "strict constructionism". Since he supports Roe, McCain-Feingold and takes a very unconstructionist view of the second amendment I can't imagine why anyone would feel secure about his picks.
Dear Always Right,
Actually, Justice Scalia is no longer a young man. I believe that he will be 71 this year.
sitetest
A sad/pathetic fact.
Yes, he would
Purity over victory? Excuse us for wanting a straightforward pro-lifer in the White House. I never realized that an electoral death wish -- and neither did the last several Republican presidents, all of whom have been pro-life in one form or another.
I doubt it. It doe s nto get much more liberal then Rino Rudy.
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When Associate Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg delivered a speech to the South African Constitutional Court on Feb. 7, 2006, she spoke of the need for national courts to incorporate international law—or as she put it, foreign decisional law—in the measures being debated by those courts. Ginsburg, who indicated that international law was acquiring a real position in the decision-making process of the US Supreme Court in 2004, noted that the
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