Tonight, we mourn the passing of a historic Justice and a legendary advocate. pic.twitter.com/2ZQ8eD9C3D— Ted Cruz (@tedcruz) September 19, 2020
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Posted on 09/18/2020 9:45:14 PM PDT by conservative98
Sen. Ted Cruz on Friday urged his fellow lawmakers to nominate and confirm a Supreme Court justice before the Nov. 3 presidential election following the death of Ruth Bader Ginsburg, warning of a looming “constitutional crisis” if the seat remains vacant.
“We cannot have Election Day come and go with a four-four court,” Cruz said during an interview with Fox News’ Sean Hannity. “A four-four court that is equally divided cannot decide anything. And I think we risk a constitutional crisis if we do not have a nine-justice Supreme Court, particularly when there is such a risk of a contested election.”
The Texas Republican — one of President Trump’s 20 potential nominees to the court, according to a list issued last week by the White House — called on Trump to nominate Ginsburg’s successor next week. Ginsburg died Friday due to complications of metastatic pancreatic cancer. She was 87.
“I think it is critical that the Senate takes up and confirms that successor before Election Day,” he said. “There’s going to be enormous pressure from the media, there’s going to be enormous pressure from the Democrats to delay filling this vacancy. But this election, this nomination is why Donald Trump was elected. This confirmation is why the voters voted for a Republican majority in the Senate.”
Cruz continued: “I’ll tell you one reason in particular why I think it is tremendously important that not only does the nomination happen next week, but that the confirmation happen before Election Day. Democrats and Joe Biden have made clear they intend to challenge this election. They intend to fight the legitimacy of this election. As you know, Hillary Clinton has told Joe Biden ‘under no circumstances should you concede. You should challenge this election.'”
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Tonight, we mourn the passing of a historic Justice and a legendary advocate. pic.twitter.com/2ZQ8eD9C3D— Ted Cruz (@tedcruz) September 19, 2020
On Hannity...
A 4-4 court?
RBG has been said by people I respect to be seriously brilliant. Too bad she was on the other side.
Interesting. Birthday is the day before Election Day. Just an observation.
Yeah, the idea that the election ends up decided by a lower court by a 4-4 decision would not be the way to decide the presidential election. GOP needs to get this done.
Ginsburg was not one our founding fathers wanted. That is my
opinion.
Whatever. As long as she’s dead. Replace her before the election and put in a strong conservative.
This way if the presidential election gets sent to court again we’ll have a ringer :-)
the R’s better not be accommodating to a party who has domestic terrorists as their base. no more GOapPeasment.
YES!!! Senator Cruz is right!
Fill it...Amy Barrett
Clarence Thomas,Samuel Alito, Neil Gorsuch, Brett Kavanaugh conservatives and the rest liberals..
Cruz is right.. If the election goes to the court you need the extra vote to the right..
Conservatives would outnumber the liberals by 2. I don’t see a crisis. I would like to see it filled and the attempt should be made but it’s not a crisis.
What’s with all the beating around the bush. She was a piece of garbage that was very complicit in the butchering of millions of babies.
Godless. Heartless.
And now lifeless.
Even with some people on this board it seems that murders of adults in Holocausts I’m more important than Holocausts of babies.
Because no one would have a kind word to say about Hitler or Stalin or Mao and nobody would say rest in peace.
The rest in peace comments make me want to throw up.
she wasn’t a noble opponent . She was a godless creature that thought abies were garbage if the mother decided they were.
All other things aside Cruz would sail through a senate nomination process
Her legal opinions sure never reflected it. She was the queen of using sophistry and platitudes in lieu of rational analysis and sound jurisprudence in order to reach a predetermined conclusion.
Right now we need his vote too much.
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