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To: Spiff

"First, not a single person who had made the claim that Rudy wants to pick "strict constructionist" judges has been able to provide a shred of proof that he EVER said that. You're making stuff up."

"While in Ohio, Rudy called into the Bill Cunningham radio show. Speaking about the Supreme Court, Rudy said: "Justices Roberts and Alito were both colleagues of mine [in the Reagan Justice Department] - people I worked with and I admire tremendously. I thought that they were inspired choices that the President made - inspired in many ways, because they also were people who had a strong conservative background and strict constructionists." He added, "Justice Scalia was also a colleague of mine...and he probably would have been my choice for Chief Justice."http://giulianiblog.blogspot.com/2006/11/rudy-id-pick-scalia-as-chief-justice.html


1,309 posted on 01/30/2007 6:07:33 PM PST by Stag_Man (NEVER let the people draw their own conclusions. - DUmmie poster.)
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To: Stag_Man

There ya go.


1,310 posted on 01/30/2007 6:08:23 PM PST by Stag_Man (NEVER let the people draw their own conclusions. - DUmmie poster.)
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To: Stag_Man
Posted by Stag_Man to Spiff On Smoky Backroom 01/30/2007 6:07:33 PM PST · 1,309 of 1,311 "First, not a single person who had made the claim that Rudy wants to pick "strict constructionist" judges has been able to provide a shred of proof that he EVER said that. You're making stuff up." "While in Ohio, Rudy called into the Bill Cunningham radio show. Speaking about the Supreme Court, Rudy said: "Justices Roberts and Alito were both colleagues of mine [in the Reagan Justice Department] - people I worked with and I admire tremendously. I thought that they were inspired choices that the President made - inspired in many ways, because they also were people who had a strong conservative background and strict constructionists." He added, "Justice Scalia was also a colleague of mine...and he probably would have been my choice for Chief Justice."

Thank you for providing a shred - a tiny shred. But it doesn't come close to what is claimed. Show me where Giuliani promised that he would appoint "strict constructionist" judges and not where he was praising a couple of guys from his days in the Justice Department. Others claim that Rudy said that Scalia was his "favorite justice". I'm sure that this the quote they're referring to. In fact, Scalia was another of Rudy's colleagues and he never said that he was his "favorite".

But, put that aside. What intelligent person believes that someone who strongly opposes overturning Roe v. Wade would appoint a single constructionist judge? Roe v. Wade is an atrocity of law, feces piled upon the U.S. Constitution, and the polar opposite of anything that a constructionist judge would have anything to do with. Yet Giuliani supports it. Only a very dense person would believe that he also supports appointing constructionist judges who, using their constructionist interpretation of the Constitution, would overturn Roe v. Wade at their first opportunity.

1,313 posted on 01/30/2007 6:18:32 PM PST by Spiff (Rudy Giuliani Quote (NY Post, 1996) "Most of Clinton's policies are very similar to most of mine.")
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