Posted on 06/27/2015 12:31:31 PM PDT by Unedited
Ted Cruz in a speech today proposed holding periodic Supreme Court judicial retention elections.
The problem is that the leftists would win, and the four who have generally defended the Constitution (well, the three, since Roberts is completely a flake) would already have been out of a job.
Activist judges need to be publically ridiculed, mocked, and embarrassed daily for their irresponsibly unconstitutional decisions.
Judges are extremely sensitive to public chastisement. We should be exploiting that to the fullest.
Who can do it better than Mark Levin? Mark, how ‘bout it?
I vote for every two years. Since they seem to want to behave like Congressmen(women), we should treat them as such!
And the corollary law should be that they need to produce more decisions, and by decisions, one’s that actually resolve a given issue, not just “pick at it,” like a festering wound. Example: The Second Amendment. They are the laziest bunch in government. Either “publish or perish!”
Personally, I don’t think this is a good time to be talking about an Article V Convention. It falls squarely into the “be careful of what you wish for” category.
I'd like to see a law where we citizens could sue pols for breach of promise when they backstab us. Then they wouldn't get to keep the money and freebies they acquire for selling us out.
Doesn’t he have a party he threatens to leave several massive cave ins ago first?
Wait. I was toldd specifically right here on FR by many, many Freepers that feet would be held to the fire and that we had to vote RINOs in no matter what.
Are you saying that these people are not holding up their promised duty?
I agree with you.
When we have a President Cruz, for instance, the time might be right.
Sorry Ted but the solution is to televise each and every moment the SC is in session, no need for constitutional amendments
I’m saying about 90% of Republicans, elected to represent us, have NO INTENTION of standing up for anything except their bank accounts.
Right again, Norm.
I forgot about that. He’s walked that line but always comes back to ‘well, we HAVE to work within the party’ or ‘just pull the R lever and ‘we’ll keep their feet to the fire’.
The last I knew of is his promise (although people on FR insist he didn’t actually promise) to go third party if amnesty becomes a reality. Not only is amnesty only a matter of time, but the gov’t is intentionally bringing in truckloads of them from Central and South America as well.
Still waiting for SOMEONE to go rogue.
Unpossible. We were told that feet were going to be held to the fire. Maybe thats why many of the people promising that aren’t posting these last few days. They are surely on the way to DC with matches, electric socks and cordwood.
... doing the job that Congress won’t do?
There’s a process for handling judges who ignore the constitution, it is called impeachment. Start one, Cruz.
I’m sorry. What happened to the anti-cruz retards?
WilliamIII, your momma’s callin’.
After Trump came out for ‘hard worker’ Amnesty today they are with their lesser evil handlers at GOP HQ plotting the next reason to use FR as a propaganda tool.
“I’m saying about 90% of Republicans, elected to represent us, have NO INTENTION of standing up for anything except their bank accounts.”
[TRUE]
Actually, he's suggesting the quickest way to get Scalia, Alito, & Thomas removed from the court. Can you imagine the shear volume of money that would be spent to get those three off the bench? Every leftist would go broke to get those three fired.
Wake up Mr. Cruz! A better idea would be to go upstream and prevent bad-apple justices from being confirmed to the Supreme Court in the first place.
More specifically, the federal government has been able to get away with stealing state powers for many generations because state lawmakers unthinkingly ratified the 17th Amendment, foolishly giving up their constitutional authority to be a part of the justice approval process.
After all, all that pro-unconstitutionally big federal government justices have to do is to decide contests of power between federal and state governments in the federal government’s favor.
The 17th Amendment needs to disappear, and pro-unconstitutionally big federal government activist justices along with it.
And why not repeal 17A and also implement periodic Supreme Court judicial retention elections as Mr. Cruz has proposed.
I vote no.
Like my vote on anything ever mattered.
I was silly and thought it made a difference.
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