Posted on 07/09/2015 10:56:46 AM PDT by Isara
Ted Cruz sparred with MSNBC’s Chris Matthews over his proposal for judicial retention elections during an interview on “Hardball” Wednesday night, at one point debating the judicial propriety of allowing ballots to be recounted in Florida during the historically close 2000 presidential election between George W. Bush and Al Gore.
The Texas Republican senator and presidential candidate said he is “reluctant to call for elections,” adding that it “makes him sad” but that he has done so because “a majority of the justices are not honoring their judicial oaths.”
“Is that the solution? Elections?” Matthews countered.
“Look, if unelected judges are going to seize every major policy issue in this country — you know, there was a time…” Cruz said.
Matthews interjected: “They seized the presidency in 2000. You did not complain! The Supreme Court said no to the state of Florida: ‘You can’t recount, even though it’s a close election, you are not allowed to recount. We’re giving this to our guy, 5-4 Republican vote in the Supreme Court.’ If there was ever a case of partisanship or ideology getting out of hand, it was 2000, and you loved it.”
“Chris, those are great talking points,” Cruz said, before asking how many times Florida recounted its ballots, noting that George W. Bush prevailed all four times. “The Democrats’ strategy was, ‘We’re going to keep counting and counting and counting and counting, and eventually maybe enough people would cheat and somehow our guy will win,’” he added.
Cruz also compared the decision of Florida’s Supreme Court to allow a ballot recount to a couple of recent decisions from the nation’s highest court.
“It was partisan defiance of the Court,” Cruz said of the decision, “and frankly, what the Florida Supreme Court did in the Bush v. Gore recount, is the same thing the U.S. Supreme Court did with Obamacare and marriage.”
Matthews is a lap dog globalist sell out lap dog. It is a waste of time to even acknowledge him.
Battles?
Tingles was behind the Defensive line cleaning the Latrine.
It was because JEB BUSH had already certified the election results in his state. It was a done deal when he did that and the dems should be reminded of that and hate him for basically giving us Bush. It was OK with me at the time. Now I think maybe this is why he has laid low the last 8 years. He probably doesn’t want people to talk about that little factoid. Remember the mantra “Bush’s fault”. The dems probably have conveniently forgotten about that for now. If he’s the nominee you know they will bring it up. Jeb is walking the McCain/Romney Road. Losers all!
How does Ted Cruz stand these maggots??
First Perky Katie and now Tingles Matthews!
Between the two of them they have a dozen brain cells.
Neither one of them are fit to shine his shoes, much less be on the same stage with him.
Ted, in all due respect, only accept interviews from people of normal intelligence and character. Please.
Gore sued to prevent certification, and thereby delayed the start of court-supervised recount. The SCOFLA cherry-picked election law (pulled a Roberts) in an act of raw partisanship.
I don't know that the governor has any role other than symbolic in sending the state electors to Congress.
El Posta Duplica.
From different sources.
Oops. My bad. Sorry for raising the flag.
Jeb will not be the nominee. But your losers all statement is foolish. Romney lost because of the constant drum beating him down right up to the voting day. It amazes me how many went against Romney since he won the nomination by conservative Americans. By not voting they preferred King Obama. Look what the fools got, a dictator.
The way to get federal judicial elections is straightforward. Do not start at the top, which is the SCOTUS, the only constitutionally required court.
Congress creates and directs *all* lower federal courts. So if they want to create judicial retention elections, all they have to do is create the order and process, and pass it into law.
Because the public generally does not know how a federal judge performs, the hard part is how to rate judges for retention or not. The bar associations would *love* to be the sole voice rating judges, and would do so anyway; so there must be other rating authorities that are not so prejudiced, or at least have different prejudices.
There needs to be conservative and liberal organizations to rate judges, and many, many others.
I held my nose and voted for both McCain and Romney. No more rhinos. Trump is popular now because he shows no fear of the press and comes a ross as a fighter. I’m no crazy about him as a nominee but I am glad he is in the race.
“I held my nose and voted for both McCain and Romney. No more rhinos.”
Do you think things would be worse right now had Romney won the 2012 election? If not, then your statement makes no sense.
No I don’t think things would have been worse. But to reverse this disastrous course we need a solid conservative.
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