Jan Crawford Greenberg, author of Supreme Conflict, who will be speaking at the RNLA National Policy Conference on March 30 has a very interesting posting on her blog about RNLA friend and former Solicitor General Ted Olson's support of Rudy Giuliani and the kinds of Supreme Court Justices Mayor Giuliani would appoint.


"Giuliani himself has said he wants to nominate justices like Roberts and Alito, Scalia and Thomas. In an interview just last week he told conservative commentator Hugh Hewitt 'that would be my goal,' praising those conservative stalwarts for the 'intellectual honesty with which they interpret the law.' And this week, he tapped prominent conservative Washington lawyer Theodore Olson, his old friend from their days in the Reagan Justice Department, to chair his Judicial Advisory Council, heading up a team of lawyers advising him on judges and other legal issues. Olson has known Giuliani 25 years, when they both worked in the Justice Department under Atty. Gen. William French Smith. Giuliani was associate attorney general, and Olson was assistant attorney general, heading up the Office of Legal Counsel."

". . . How's this for a litmus test: Would Rudy Giuliani nominate someone like Janice Rogers Brown -- a staunch conservative, beloved by many on the Right and reviled by those on the Left?

"Olson didn't hesitate.

"'Yes,' he said. 'I think he'd be impressed with her whole life story, her talent, her education--the way she pulled herself up from a very modest beginning, the inspiration her life would give to people -- on top of her talent.'

"But would he be willing to wage the fight a Brown nomination would provoke?

"'Absolutely,' Olson said. 'Rudy has never walked away from a fight.'"