More hard-right policy appointments for the Giuliani campaign, this time on judicial matters. A key part of Rudy’s strategy is his promise to appoint “strict constructionist” judges to help overcome resistance to his nominally pro-choice stance. With that in mind, his picks make sense:

Former New York City mayor Rudy Giuliani yesterday unveiled a team of conservative lawyers and scholars who will help develop his policies on issues like tort reform and judicial appointments. Among the advisers are well-known conservative Ted Olson, former solicitor general of the United States under Ronal Reagan, and Miguel Estrada, a Bush appointee to the federal court whose nomination was blocked by Senate Democrats in 2003 in part because they distrusted his views on abortion.

Nobody getting advice from Ted Olson and Meguel Estrada can be considered a liberal or anything like. We can go ahead and throw this notion of “Giuliani the moderate” out the window. Not all anti-choice activists are convinced:

“It goes deeper than nervous,” said David O’Steen, executive director of the National Right to Life Committee. “There’s a deep divide between his position and that of pro-life people, and I think that’s a problem for him.”

But let’s not fool ourselves. On economic policy, foreign policy, and now judicial policy, Rudy Giuliani has been hiring far-right extremist advisors. He would be a far-right extremist president.

Again, I’ll profile the key policy advisors in a series that’ll resume after I’m back from vacation. But we can see the basic idea already.

Posted by Paul Curtis
Wednesday, July 18, 2007 at 10:51 am

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