Giuliani Touts Right Wing Extremist Judges
Posted on Sat Feb 10, 2007 at 01:05:00 AM EST
Tags: Rudy Giuliani (all tags)
Rudy Giuliani is trying to cover his pro-choice stance of the past. Rather than doing a direct flip-flop, he's praising President Bush's right-wing extremist judges.
In his recent travels, he has directed questions on the issue toward a discussion about judges, saying he would appoint jurists who believe in interpreting, not making, the law: judges, he said, like Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. and Justices Antonin Scalia and Samuel A. Alito Jr., who he has said he believed would place limits on Roe v. Wade.
“On the federal judiciary I would want judges who are strict constructionists because I am,” he said last week in South Carolina. “I have a very, very strong view that for this country to work, for our freedoms to be protected, judges have to interpret, not invent, the Constitution.
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