I'm, shocked! Shocked, I tell you.
I often wonder just how "tough" Rudy Giuliani really was on crime in New York. How many plea bargains did he accept to get a "conviction" in comparison to other federal prosecutors? There must be some statistics out there somewhere.
Wonder how far to the left Hildabeast's judges will be? Any hard core conservative out there that can beat Hildabeast?
Yeah, I guess the do "tend" to lean to the left.
Unfortunately for Rudy, conservatives are not as dumb as he and the msm think they are. We follow the excellent advice of Jesus, "By their fruits you shall know them." (Matt. 7:16) There is a lot of rotten fruit in this politician's past.
We are talking about NY here. Look at what he has to choose from. LOL
It is crazy to say Rudy had no one to choose from - what stupid spin. Of course he did, and he chose Democrats because they better reflected his own views.
Here is another writher that apparently fails to understand that the definition of "tolerance" is not "advocacy"
But to Schumer, who led the fight against Bush's appellate judges, Irizarry was a Republican he could live with.
Back in the pre-clintonian days, the democrats always insisted that the ABA ratings were the gold standard. But when Bush appoints a conservative or constructionist judge rated "highly qualified" it doesn't matter. However, if he happens to nominate an awful clown like Irizarry (I don't understand why he nominated her in the first place) that the ABA has rated "NOT QUALIFIED", Schumer pushes her nomination through in spite of it. The democrats are a foul, wretched bunch of LIARS and hypocrites.
Rudy appointed judges who were tough-on-crime, whether they were Democrats or Republicans. And don't forget thet judges have to be confirmed by some Democrat-dominated body in NYC.
Well, well, well. Quite the conservative we have here...
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.
Since 1978, merit selection has been used to select judges of New York Citys criminal and family courts and to fill mid-term vacancies on the citys civil court. Established by executive order, the mayors 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.
Good find!
I don't want "conservative" judges. I want judges who read the constitution and apply what is there, not what they think is there.
Activists are bad on both sides...see Gonzalez vs Reich.