Posted on 07/18/2007 2:36:05 PM PDT by Rick_Michael
COUNCIL BLUFFS, Iowa - Republican presidential candidate Rudy Giuliani, a proponent of abortion rights, said Wednesday he would not use a judicial nominee's stand on the issue or the landmark Supreme Court decision as a litmus test...............
"Abortion is not a litmus test. Roe v. Wade is not a litmus test. No particular case is a litmus test. That's not the way to appoint Supreme Court justices or any judge," Giuliani said.
Roe v. Wade is the 1973 Supreme Court ruling that established a constitutional right to abortion. Giuliani favors abortion rights though he has said he personally opposes the procedure, a stand that puts him at odds with his rivals and the conservative Republicans who hold sway in the primaries............
"It would be OK," Giuliani said. "It would be OK to repeal it."
But, he added: "It would be OK also if a strict constructionist viewed it as precedent" and kept the law intact...................
It CAN’T be OK to have it either way! What a lying loser!
Go away, you gun grabber, you. Just wait til Fred kicks your little heiny.
But, he added: "It would be OK also if a strict constructionist viewed it as precedent" and kept the law intact...................
Rudy, you better hope that fence you're straddling doesn't get too high.
"If a judicial nominee can look at a sonogram, the picture of an unborn child, and not see, looking at that sonogram, not see a valuable human life, I'm not going to give him an appointment to the court," said Rep. Duncan Hunter, R-Calif. "I am going to give him an appointment to an optometrist to get a set of eyeglasses so that he can see that."
Keep on getting that message out. There are still people planning to vote for you Rudy.
Great quote. Wish Mr. Hunter was higher on that poll on the right side of the FR screen...
Considering he’s running about 40% against the great white hope, I’m optimistic.
Obviously Rudy Guilanai doesn’t know what it means to be a “strict constructionist jurist”, sorry Guliani; You fail!
I have been reading your posts - you appear to a reasoned individual. You make measured posts, and you manage to stay “inside the ropes”.
The only philosophical consideration for a USSC Justice should be a literal interpretation of the Constitution...otherwise known as Strict Construction.
It would be an ENORMOUS step forward for the court and the country.
Someone put the name JulieAnnie in a post recently and now I can’t think of Rudy without thinking of that name.
Would support or opposition to human slavery also NOT be a test for judges that you would appoint, Rudy? Idiot...
...of course, he doesn’t know you as well as the rest of us.
A euphemism that means that he (and anyone else who utters that phrase) will nominate pro-abortion judges. Any sort of "moderation" on an issue like abortion is pure hypocrisy. If it is murder, than what makes it all right "under certain conditions" and if it isn't why regulate it at all?
“Strict Construction.”
‘cept Ghoulinai thinks that abortion is in the Constitution.
It is ok - nothing to see here. The Rudy-lovers here on FR will still vote for him as they worship at his feet...
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