Well, nobody disagreed with that! Would it not seem that a vote for Rudy is a vote for Roe vs. Wade? I can't imagine voting for a pro-abortion candidate. Who will he nominate to the Supreme Court, anti-abortionists? Of course, murder is no big deal to a small number of people here. The same suspects who wanted Terri Schiavo dead are right here again giving you grief. They are consistent.
Seeming as how he's pledged to appoint justices like Roberts and Alito, no, that isn't at all clear.
Jim, got anything to say about this comment regarding "the same suspects", which must be me since this was posted in reply to my post to you? Did I want Terri Schiavo dead?
While we're on the subject, where does your guy Hunter stand wrt Terri Schiavo? (hint: see my tagline)
What do you think will happen when Roe v. Wade is finally overturned?
And do you think that, before Roe v. Wade was announced, that all those abortions in New York and Oregon were permissible under the Constitution?
The Roe decision can be and should be opposed because it is completely ungrounded in the Constitution, and represents an extreme power grab by the USSC which, if not reversed, undoes the whole Constitutional system. A court which can issue the Roe ruling is a court which recognizes NO limits on its own power.
This is more or less unrelated to what the states will legislate after Roe goes away. For myself, I think the number of abortions after Roe is reversed will not change at all, and that if you want abortion to end, that Roe and Constitutional Law is the wrong place to look.
I can't imagine voting for a pro-abortion candidate. Who will he nominate to the Supreme Court, anti-abortionists?
Mayor Rudy Giuliani on the campaign trail
The Hugh Hewitt Show
2-23-07 at 6:11 PM
http://hughhewitt.townhall.com/Transcript_Page.aspx?ContentGuid=946ea11b-064a-4272-90d2-1e2eda6678f4
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HH: You know, you picked up Ted Olson’s endorsement, taking a digression. That’s a big deal. Will he be playing a role in your campaign?
RG: He sure will. I mean, Ted Olson is someone I have…first of all, he’s a very, very good friend. I mean, he’s someone…he’s been my friend since those days, and we’ve been through a lot together. Yes, Ted will play a very big role in my campaign, and I mean, if Ted weren’t my very, very good friend, he’d be somebody I’d still want to rely on as probably one of the biggest experts on the Constitution in this country, and the person who probably has argued before the Supreme Court more than anybody I know.
HH: He or Judge Starr, one of those two are the two most…
RG: He or Ken have probably argued before the Supreme Court more than anyone that I know, and their knowledge of it is remarkable. I mean, it’s a great asset to anybody.
HH: Will he help you pick judges if you are the president, and you’re making Supreme Court selections?
RG: He’d be one of the first people that I’d turn to for advice and help and assistance. And I was involved in the Reagan administration in the judge selection process, although that was run by the deputy attorney general, and I was involved in the U.S. attorneys and U.S. marshals. But I watched all of it, and I appointed 100 judges myself. And it’s something I thought of, when I was the Mayor, as one of the most important things that I did.
HH: Did you have a litmus test for those hundred?
RG: No. No, not a litmus test on a single issue, a philosophical test, meaning what I wanted to know was what’s their view of how you interpret the Constitution and laws? Are they…do the Constitution and laws exist as the thing from which you have to discern the meaning and the intent? Or are you going to superimpose your own social views? And I want, I like the first kind of judge, who is a judge who looks to the meaning of the Constitution, doesn’t try to create it.
HH: A pro-life voter looking at you, knowing that you’re pro-choice, but not concerned that presidents really matter so much in that, except as far as judges are concerned, what do you tell them about who you’re going to be putting on the federal bench?
RG: I’m going to say I’d put people like…I mean, the best way to do it is to just say I would, I could just have easily have appointed Sam Alito or Chief Justice Roberts as President Bush did, in fact. I’d have been pretty proud of myself if I had been smart enough to make that choice if I were the president.
HH: Do you expect justices like Roberts and Alito to come out of a Giuliani administration?
RG: I hope. I mean, that would be my goal. I mean, they’re sort of a very high standard, and so is Justices Scalia and Thomas. That would be the kind of judges I would look for, both in terms of their background and their integrity, but also the intellectual honesty with which they interpret the law.