Ted Cruz is Right.. and Wrong

http://www.teapartynation.com ^ | 7/5/2015 | Judson Phillips

[conservativejoy]

Ted Cruz is right…and wrong

Judson Phillips July 5, 2015 at 9:14am in Tea Party Nation

Ted Cruz may be that once in a generation candidate who, if elected President, can change the world.

Part of the greatness of Cruz and his candidacy is his brilliance and his willingness to take on topics none of the other candidates will touch. Only Cruz and Donald Trump are going after the Republican Establishment on illegal immigration.

Ted Cruz recently came out with another idea in response to something the government did. He has the basic of the idea right but the actual idea is wrong.

What is it that Ted Cruz is so right about yet still wrong?

After the Supreme Court announced the Obergefell v. Hodges decision, where the Supreme Court ordered all states to allow homosexual marriage, Ted Cruz shot back. Cruz proposed a Constitutional amendment that would require Supreme Court justices to sit for periodic retention elections.

When the Constitution was written in 1787, the judiciary was considered the weakest branch of the government so federal judges were given lifetime tenure. 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.

At first, this power was used sparingly. But in the last 50 years, an increasingly activist federal judiciary has used this power over and over again to legislate from the bench.

The federal system of government has checks and balances against the abuse of power, except in the case of the judiciary. There is no check against their power.

Cruz suggests retention votes for these justices.

Retention votes are a joke. Tennessee, where I live and practice law, has retention elections for appellate judges. In 26 years, only one has been voted out.

The time has come to amend the Constitution to have all federal judges stand for popular election. We need a check on the outrageous usurpation of power by the federal judiciary.

If judges had to run every four years, how willing would they be to sign any injunction an ACLU lawyer throws in front of them? How willing would they be to silence the voices of millions who vote for natural marriage? How willing would these judges and justices be to give these crazy rulings? How willing would John Roberts be to go to the mat to save Obamacare if he had to face the people?

The answer is of course, they would not.

Ted Cruz has identified the problem. We have an unaccountable federal judiciary. But the answer is not faux elections and that is all retention elections are. The answer is real elections.

If these judges are so proud of their rulings, let them face the people with them.

We need this constitutional amendment before America truly becomes the dictatorship of the judiciary.

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[SoConPubbie]

No. I'm left-handed. That means I can think with both sides of my brain.

I could care less if you can think with both sides of your brain.

You are ranting about a problem that there is no proof to support.

Look at post #18 above.

Unless you can provide the necessary documented evidence that proves that there are more than a minuscule # of STEM workers, with respect to the overall H1-B workers whose jobs have been replaced, this is a non issue.

Disney and SCE, the only documented instances of H1-B abuse of any numbers that I have been able to find, only account for 1000 STEM jobs in comparison to 350,000 H1-B jobs.

1000/350,000 = .3%.

Statistical noise.

Do the math Ambidextrous Brain-Man!

[ComputerGuy]

Given my over forty years experience in the field, I feel qualified to at least have an opinion.

[LS]

I agree. Enforce the constitution with lawmakers who have a spine and will use impeachment.

[C. Edmund Wright]

...and I’d add focusing on this issue, which hasn’t a DAMNED THING TO DO with the topic at hand....proves my point about being a detail oriented person incapable of stepping back and looking at the big picture.

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[shibumi]

No fair picking on the guys from the Advanced Shop Class.

[trisham]

"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

click the pic

[C. Edmund Wright]

...but....but...he’s soooooooo much smarter than Cruz, don’t ya know?

[SoConPubbie]

Given my over forty years experience in the field, I feel qualified to at least have an opinion.

Opinions are worthless unless they are backed up by logic AND facts.

[ComputerGuy]

One of the reasons that left-handed people are overly-represented in programming is because we are right-brained. Most of us are also conceptual thinkers. We can see both the big picture as well as the details. But then, I only know what I’ve seen. And done.

[C. Edmund Wright]

Well first of all, I’m probably as left handed as you can get. Even survived the compulsory attempts to change me as a kid.

But your posts have been very micro oriented, and you’ve demonstrated none of your big picture ability here. NONE. Feel free to try and do that.

In fact, the very idea you focused in on an issue that only interests you because of your career - instead of the very big picture idea of an out of control judiciary which is far more powerful than our Founders ever intended (that was Cruz’ point, which escaped you) - proves me out on this.

There are no absolutes on left handed/right handed and intellectual ability.

[ComputerGuy]

Negative. You little girls are throwing a hissy fit because someone disagrees with you. As for me, I’ve been shot at way too many times to worry about chickenshiite.

[itsahoot]

It’s going to have to be something with far more consequence than that.

If Congress did their jobs none of this would be necessary. If we insist on sending immoral perverts and opportunistic frauds to serve in the Congress then this is what we get.

[itsahoot]

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.

Bingo!!

[C. Edmund Wright]

In other words, you surrender, with no attempt to stay on topic or demonstrate a big picture view.

Game set match....thanks for playing drive safe.

[right way right]

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.

[itsahoot]

Oh, and BTW, the misbehavior of Disney and SCE to the tune of around 1000 jobs is not adequate proof.

Well there you go. Hard to lose an argument if you alone get to determine the facts.

[ComputerGuy]

It’ll take more than you to make me surrender.

[C. Edmund Wright]

you already did surrender......still an epic failure on your part to address any aspect of the topic at hand...or demonstrate any kind of thinking other than small view detail oriented.

And you haven’t even backed your view up on that. Nor have you given any credible reason why Cruz would do this.....and apparently you don’t believe you two could just have a legit disagreement.

Vindictive. Catty. Small pictured dude.

[C. Edmund Wright]

..and you’re entitled to your bias.

[kabar]

Part of the greatness of Cruz and his candidacy is his brilliance and his willingness to take on topics none of the other candidates will touch. Only Cruz and Donald Trump are going after the Republican Establishment on illegal immigration.

Simply wrong.