Rudy and his justices will emulate the UN.
Posted on 03/01/2007 8:24:02 AM PST by Mr. Brightside
You don't have to like the G man, that's fine, but to call him a RINO or to say he's not "conservative" is patently ignorant.
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Say it, brother... I'm not a Rudy fan, but he's certainly much better than any of the Demodogs who are in that primary.
Rudy and his justices will emulate the UN.
Dole and GHWB were not RINOs. They were moderately conservative republicans, but were not inspiring, to say the least. Bush would have won if the stalking horse didn't get 19% of the vote.
There are 23,000 members of the New York City Bar. To say that Rudy couldn't find more than 7 qualified Republicans is ludicrous. You're right. Rudy selected lawyers who think like him...and they were mostly Dems.
Well, well, well. Quite the conservative we have here...
I suppose we should expect a minimum of 17 Rudy threads a day for the next 613 days.
Democrats outnumber Republicans 8 to 1 in New York City???
Shocked! Shocked, I tell you!!
At a minimum, yes.
lol
What is the pool of available Judges like in New York? Rudy can't pick an Alabama Judge.
It's past time delusion conservatives got their heads of their behinds and realize Rudy is a RINO and would be a complete disaster if elected to office.
Would global warming alarmist and utter ignorance and disregard for the 2nd Amendment be social issues that only socons are worried about?
I think not.
Most here would forgive a candidate for having one or two glaring deficencies or skeletons in the closet.
That is not the case with Rudy. Law and order is great. Giving the finger to the Constitutional Amendment most dear to millions of conservatives as part of that L&O is not.
Thinking man may have an impact on global warming is arguable, but reasonable. Praising Arnie's boondoggle efforts and postitioning himself left of Algore is nuts.
Giuliani is pro-abortion, pro-homosexual, pro-man made global warming, pro-control, pro-hate crimes legislation, increased spending during his second term in office and nominated liberal judges to the judiciary.
Why in the world would any conservative support such a candidate?
Conservatives have no chance of making any gains in this nation as long as a significant percentage remain dumb and deluded.
In my lifetime there is only one person that I strongly regretted voting for: George Ryan of Illinois.
He ran as conservative but governed like a liberal.
Single-handidly he destroyed the GOP in Illinois.
Since then I've taken knowing more about the candidates before voting more seriously.
Most presidents become more liberal once elected, so I say let's support a real pro-life,pro-troops, pro-2nd amendment, protect our borders candidate.
Duncan Hunter is the man.
The fact that he is also a veteran and his son served in Iraq seperates him from the Democrats: Hillary, Obama and Edwards.
Since 1978, merit selection has been used to select judges of New York City’s criminal and family courts and to fill mid-term vacancies on the city’s civil court. Established by executive order, the mayor’s advisory committee on the judiciary evaluates applicants and nominates highly qualified candidates. The mayor may not appoint a judge who has not been nominated by the committee.http://www.ajs.org/js/NY_methods.htm
Now the $64,000 question is, how are folks chosen to serve on this wondrous "advisory committee" chosen? Are they all chosen by the current mayor, as the term "advisory" would suggest? If so, then Rudy deserves more blame than he otherwise would.
If not -- that is, if the committee is like, say, the FCC and thus includes folks chosen by prior mayors (or who are elected ... in a hugely Democratic city), then it mitigates the critique that Rudy appointed libs to the bench.
Unfortunately, I don't know the answer (about how folks get onto the advisory committee that has such huge power in picking NYC judges). Anyone know?
Oh please! This is so stupid. First, the Mayor of NYC only appoints the judges to the NYC Family Court and Criminal Court, not the Civil Court, where the judges are elected. Second, as to those judges that the mayor does appoint, a judcial screening panel provides the mayor with a list of nominees from which to chose. Most of the members of the judical screening panel are selected by the political leaders in the various election districts in NYC. Since the vast majority of these districts are overwhelmingly controlled by Democrats, the overwhelming majority of the screening panel are also Democrats, who to no surprise, provide a list of judical nomonees to the mayor who are also overwhelmingly Democrats.
The vast, vast majority of judges that the mayor appoints to the criminal and family courts have little if any oppurtunity to make decisions that have any impact upon anyone other than the parties before the judge. They rarely decide Constitutional questions of any import, and with limited exceptions, they do not have the authority to issue injucntions or declaratory judgments. In the NYC Criminal Court, for example, the judges spend 95% or more of their time on the bench doing arraignments, and accepting guilty please in an effort to keep the wheels of justice moving. Being a Democrat or Republican at this level of justice is pretty much meaningless.
Also, on several occassions, Guilliani refused to reappoint NYC judges due to incompetence despite the recoomendations of the Judicial Screening Panel and pressure from the NYC Bar Association, the mostly Democratic political machines that try to controll NYC, and the New York Times Ediorial Board.
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