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Ted Cruz Ping! It would be better to have all laws and ammendment expire on the census. That’s state local and federal.
I don’t disagree with this.
Something needs to be done about judicial activism and blatant abuse of power, and retention elections is not the thing to be done.
It’s going to have to be something with far more consequence than that.
Get over yourself Judson.....Cruz’s statement was clarifying......a thought experiment more than a literal proposal.
Supreme Court Justices are not given their positions for “life”, but for the “duration of good behavior”. Violating the Constitution is not “good behavior”, and the Congress has the authority to impeach them.
They are not untouchable, Congress has just used them as well as all of the president’s agencies and bureaus to delegate all of the tough decisions so they can cite their good voting records.
Wake up!
This is the way to nullify the abortion decision, the anti-school prayer decisions, the over jealous limitations on local law enforcement, school assignments, legislative apportionment, etc., etc..
To listen to some of these people you would think Cruz had said he would sign an executive order to submit SC Judges to elections.
He is only making a point (something needs to be done) such a thing would have to be done in accordance with the constitution, he is suggesting one solution (he never said it is the best solution) that would need support of the people through Congress, there will be arguments on whether or not it is a good idea, we will no longer have a dictator in office when Cruz is POTUS!
The overall objective Cruz has (that seems to get lost in the hoopla) is to restore our Constitutional Free Republic.
I agree. Enforce the constitution with lawmakers who have a spine and will use impeachment.
"Instead of a president who boycotts Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, imagine America’s standing unapologetically with the nation of Israel.
Imagine a commander in chief standing up with clarity and saying we will defeat radical Islamic terrorists. And under no circumstances will the nation of Iran be allowed to acquire nuclear weapons.
Some weeks ago I joined with 46 other senators signing a letter that we sent to Iran explaining that under the United States Constitution there are only two way something becomes a law, either it is a treaty ratified by two-thirds of the Senate or a law passed by both houses of Congress signed by the president.
Well the Obama White House went a little hysterical about that letter."Ted Cruz
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limit federal judges to one term of 6 years and continue on with the practice of executive appointment to that one term.
It should not be a career but a resume enhancement.
Better yet limit it to two years. The less entrenched, the better.
Don’t turn Judges into politicians, that would be insane.
Simply wrong.
“The time has come to amend the Constitution to have all federal judges stand for popular election.”
Geez, that’s an even worse idea. The last thing we need to do is democratize the judiciary. Just look what happened when we democratized the Senate.
A better solution is maybe to make the Senate reconfirm the justices every 10 years or so. I’d rather pit one branch against another, rather than hand more power to the idiot masses.
In 1803, in the case of Marbury v. Madison, the Supreme Court made an incredible power grab. It gave itself the right to declare legislation unconstitutional.
So, overturn it by legislation.
I propose that SCOTUS nominees be confirmed automatically provided that they are on a “short list” publicly stipulated at least two weeks in advance of the popular vote for the election of the the president who nominates them.
