See, now I have to go back to defending Rudy.
He simply did not get to nominate judges in NYC. Any article which implies that he did is either deceitful, or mindlessly echoing the attack dogs. A committee of uber-liberals would submit three names of NYC judges, almost all of whom are going to be left-wing extremists, and Rudy has to pick from among those. I'll be impressed that Rudy was favoring liberals when I see the list of conservative judges nominated by the committee which Rudy failed to appoint. Until then, please don't be fooled by the scurrilous garbage.
To be fair this is true...
On the matter of whether Rudy Giuliani appointed liberal judges because he had to, or not, see this March 3 post by Jim Rob and its links: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/1794792/posts?page=7#7