Whitman declares death penalty a litmus test for judicial nominees

Sacramento Bee ^ | 10/26/10 | David Siders

[SmithL]

WESTLAKE VILLAGE – Meg Whitman said Monday that if elected governor she would appoint only judges who support the death penalty.

The Republican candidate's remarks preceded a rally outside Los Angeles at which she told hundreds of supporters that Democrat Jerry Brown is "soft on crime" and that she will end his political career.

"One more week," Whitman told a cheering crowd at the Hyatt Westlake Plaza in Westlake Village. "One more week until we retire Jerry Brown permanently from politics."

Whitman, joined by crime victim advocates, told The Bee she would treat the death penalty as a litmus test when considering all judicial nominees. She criticized Brown, the former governor, for what she called his "long history of judges that were very liberal," in particular his controversial appointment of Rose Bird as the state's chief justice.

[utherdoul]

sounds good to me. If you ask me the death penalty should be expanded and waiting times should be cut by two thirds.

[Logical me]

Forget Meg, Brown has the fix in with his commie rats.

[OneWingedShark]

The Death-penalty should also be applied to Supreme Court Justices who undermine the Constitution, IMO... as well as to judges and prosecutors who enforce contra-constitutional ‘laws’ and regulations.

Say what you will, but it’s already a prosecutable law w/ capital punishment*: http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/html/uscode18/usc_sec_18_00000241——000-.html

*Government false arrest, IMO, certainly qualifies as “kidnapping or an attempt to kidnap.”