Rudy Giuliani is promising to appoint conservative, "strict constructionist" judges if elected. Who's helping him decide who they should be? Ted Olson and Miguel Estrada.

Giuliani has even created a Justice Advisory Committee populated by bright conservative lights including former Bush solicitor general Theodore Olson as the committee's chairman; Federalist Society co-founder Steven Calabresi, a Northwestern University law professor; and Washington lawyer Miguel Estrada, who was denied a federal appeals court bid in 2003 because Democrats feared he was too conservative

He's also courting the Federalist Society. Anyone who thinks Ted Olson wouldn't run a partisan Department of Justice if appointed Attorney General should think again.

Olson was in the room at the first meeting of the Federalist Society in 1982....The idea was to launch a counter-cultural legal movement in which conservative lawyers and scholars would roll back what they viewed as the excessive intrusion of judges into American life.

....The plan was to sow talented conservatives at every level of the federal judiciary and ultimately gain a foothold at the Supreme Court. "That was very much on our minds," Olson said.