A strike against Giuliani
Re “Giuliani’s conservative credentials,” Opinion, Dec. 21
Rudy Giuliani sounded interesting and like someone I could support right up until the end of the piece when Jonah Goldberg told me that Giuliani “signals that he would appoint judges in the mold of Supreme Court Justices Antonin Scalia and Clarence Thomas.”
Despite the weight of constitutional authority providing otherwise, Scalia stated in a recent dissent that states are free to criminalize homosexual behavior between consenting adults; and Thomas stated in two of his dissents that a police officer’s beating of an incarcerated criminal suspect without legal justification does not violate the constitutional ban against cruel and unusual punishment and that the protections of the Bill of Rights -- property rights, free speech, freedom of religion, etc. -- are not mandatory for the 50 states.
For the thinking of justices in the mold of Scalia and Thomas to reflect the majority on the Supreme Court would be a disaster for this country. If, therefore, what Goldberg says about Giuliani’s judicial appointments is true, I could never support him for president or any other high office.
LES T. ZADOR
Encino
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