Respectfully, Ted Cruz would not do an “end run” around the constitution.
From the article I referenced above:
Like Reagan, Cruz believes in limited government, but his basis for that belief differs in a significant way from Reagan’s. Reagan thought limited government was a matter of political choice; Cruz believes it is a constitutional mandate. Cruz comes to that belief from a position of unusual intimacy with the constitutional text.
When Cruz was in his early teens, in Houston, his parents enrolled him in an after-school program run by Rolland Storey, a retired energy executive who wanted to instill the values of the free market in young people. At the Free Enterprise Institute, Storey had his young charges read Milton Friedman, Friedrich Hayek, and other authors revered by conservatives, and then give speeches at Rotary Clubs and similar venues around the state. “They created a spinoff group called the Constitutional Corroborators,” Cruz told me. “And they took five of the students, all of whom had been involved on the free-market side, and we focussed on studying the Constitution. So we’d meet on Tuesdays and Thursdays, for a couple of hours each night, and study the Constitution, read the Federalist Papers, read the Anti-Federalist Papers, read the debates on ratification. And we memorized a shortened mnemonic version of the Constitution.”
I asked for an example.
“TCCNCCPCC PAWN MOMMA RUN,” Cruz said. “Taxes, credit, commerce, naturalization, coinage, counterfeiting, post office, copyright, courts, piracy, Army, war, Navy, militia, money for militia, Washington, D.C., rules, and necessary and proper.”
Dan, you disagree with Sen. Cruz on the fast track, obviously many do. I respect your view. But, those who argue that Cruz would violate the Constitution, that’s just wrong. The guy lives and breathes the Constitution.
So why is Cruz ram thru fast track and peddling some phony amendments spin ?
You Cruz people need to deal with the truth.
He already did, why wouldn't he do it again?
"Fast Track" per se was challenged to the USSC and they ruled in 92 it was "non jeduciable"...that it was up to POTUS and Congress to decide what was, and was not a "treaty" covered under Article II, Section II constraints.
However, the context of that ruling was PURELY trade.
This new deal covers immigration and sovereign product standards...and the adjudication of disputes in courts not under US sovereign control.
This would CLEARLY trip the threshold of Article II, Section II.
Yes, Ted Cruz has not only enabled an end-run around the constitution, he has violated it.