Posted on 03/10/2016 12:08:40 AM PST by Sun
..youngest Solicitor General in the entire country and the longest tenure in Texas history(snip)
Authored over 80 SCOTUS briefs and presented over 40 oral arguments before The Court
* In the landmark case of District of Columbia v. Heller, Cruz assembled a coalition of 31 states in defense of the principle that the 2nd Amendment guarantees an individual right to keep and bear arms
* Presented oral arguments before the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit
* Defended the Ten Commandments monument on the Texas State Capitol grounds,
* Defended the recitation of the Pledge of Allegiance in public schools(snip)
He has sponsored 97 bills. Here are a few crucial pieces of legislation sponsored by Cruz: * ObamaCare Repeal Act(snip)
CONSTITUTION=FREEDOM!!
(Excerpt) Read more at thecommontruth.net ...
Yes, he is. And he has a storied reputation for delivering on his promises.
And while Cruz definitely fights conservative battles, he hasn't won any of them since he left the courtroom.
Since you obviously know little about Abe Lincoln, you fit right into Trump's low education lobby.
You also can’t join the status quo you say you abhor in order to sate pure ambition.
Ted Cruz got SCOTUS justices to go along with him, which is why you have your 2nd Amendment rights. Did you read the OP article?
Sen. Cruz also took on the NBC moderators at the debate, and got other candidates to do the same. Now THAT is a LEADER.
McConnell is the one with the power, but he is a lousy leader. PRESIDENT Cruz will have the power.
He seems perfectly fit to be a Supreme Court Justice. I hope that’s where he lands because he could serve this country in that capacity for many decades.
I guess you’re tired, because I was talking about Abe Lincoln, not Ike.
Reagan did not want to divorce his first wife, any more than Trump’s first, and second wives, wanted to divorce Trump.
There are some who will find fault with Reagan, but even Reagan would say he was not perfect. Who is?
But what I do know is that Reagan, Pope John Paul II and Margaret Thatcher destroyed the Soviet Union.
I also know that the economy was great under Reagan, and morals were as well.
btw, I’m not old enough to have lived in Lincoln’s time, but I know the history.
“He seems perfectly fit to be a Supreme Court Justice. I hope that’s where he lands because he could serve this country in that capacity for many decades.”
If Cruz is not president, but a SCOTUS justice, there might not be a Constitutional majority in the SCOTUS.
I don’t trust Hillary, or Trump, to pick Constitutional judges.
The next president might be picking up to FOUR SCOTUS justices.
That’s why I’d like to see Ted Cruz as POTUS first, and then a SCOTUS justice.
Except the Fourth Amendment.
I think you're wrong. Trump has gone through incredible effort to defend the principles he's been so horribly attacked on by the establishment, political, media, and the not-so-invisible hands that control them. He's the real alpha-male in the room, the one who knows how to fight back and win. A warrior doesn't cede territory once it's been conquered.
What will be more in-your-face than building that big beautiful wall? I believe it's already been legislated, but never financed. What will keep his supporters loyal more than stopping Mexican and Chinese goods at the border until the tariff is paid? Then jailing then deporting for good every invader who commits a crime (for starters), etc
Why am I so confident? 1. Trump's ego. When he's President, he'll want to be in history books at the best US president ever, the one that saved an again prosperous and independent US, a reason to add another President to Mount Rushmore. 2.. his love of family. He's going to want those kids and grandkids and their kids to feel pride in what he's done to give them a better place to live and prosper.
Another factor to consider. What if the disgusting element of the party steals the nomination? Their takeaway will be that they don't need voters to secure nominations. They'll usurp even more financial well being and freedoms from US citizens. We'll be through as a nation with the potential to turn things around.
I've really thought about this, trying to be logical. Logically, at this point, there's no good outcome for hard-working decent, law-abiding US citizens except for Trump.
TX AG John Cornyn (who was running for Senate) left it assigned to the Harris County DA, Charles Rosenthal. Even so, there weren’t enough conservatives on the court to prevent what happened.
He handed out Teddy Bears to illegal invadors as the crossed our southren border. What a great guy.
We not longer have religious freedom in this country. The state is imposing secular humanism on the people. Secular Humanism is the religion of the state.
Bull, he voted to reauthorize the Patriot Act. The Patriot Act makes a mockery of the 4th amendment. He cheer leaded for TPA/TPP which cedes our sovereignty to unelected bureaucrats. He is clearly not a natural born citizen under original intent as is called for by the constitution. Cruz is no great defender of our constitution.
By lying about an interpretation he knows well, having had the same constitutional law professor, Larry Tribe, as Obama, who never claimed to be a natural born citizen, Ted certainly doesn't belong in the Supreme Court, or the Presidency. Born on foreign soil with claims on his citizenship from three nations, Cuba, Canada and the U.S. and born to only one citizen parent, if his mother was still a citizen, makes Ted ineligible.
The packed court, without Scalia and with only two conservatives, would have to overturn the 14th Amendment and Minor v. Happersett with impact on at least a dozen cases that cited Minor for the definition. That would make anchor babies eligible to the presidency, as well as the King of Jordan and Winston Churchill. Ted is a liar and seems bent upon destroying what is left, after Obama, of the Constitution's citizenship provisions, rendering the difference between naturalized and natural born citizenship a nullity, and allowing Congress to make anyone it wishes president. That could have been done with an amendment or Article V Constitutional Convention, but after almost thirty attempts, 2/3 of Congress and 3/4 of the states have never supported amending Article II Section 1. Cruz wants you to do it now, for him, and forget about that musty old artifact. He wants you to forget about the Constitution and trust him and the media, or you will be called a "Birther" and lose all your friends. The Media, by avoiding any mention of eligibility after Obama, has done what the corrupted courts will not do, interpret the Constitution to suit their goals.
Larry Tribe was honest when he told you in the Boston Globe that Cruz is a hypocrite and liar about the his claimed constitutional conservatism. We may not know the strategy, if there is one, but Ted is telling everyone, with that sly confidence-game smile, that the "Naturalization Amendment" known as the 14th Amendment didn't naturalize him, but made him magically a natural born citizen, born on our soil to parents who were its citizens at the birth, as confirmed by the unanimous Supreme Court in Minor v. Happersett, 88 U.S. 162, (1875).
Here is another example of Cruz arguing for his cause—this time the Gr8 bill, provided his amendment is attached.
“If this amendment is adopted to the current bill, the effect would be that those 11 million under this current bill would still be eligible for RPI status. They would still be eligible for legal status and indeed, under the terms of the bill, they would be eligible for LPR status as well so that they are out of the shadows, which the proponents of this bill repeatedly point to as their principal objective to provide a legal status for those who are here illegally to be out of the shadows. ... I don’t want immigration reform to fail. I want immigration reform to pass. And so I would urge people of good faith on both sides of the aisle, if the objective is to pass common sense immigration reform that secures the borders, that improves legal immigration, and that allows those who are here illegally to come in out of the shadows. Then we should look for areas of bipartisan agreement and compromise to come together. And this amendment, I believe, if this amendment were to pass, the chances of this bill passing into law would increase dramatically.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4CwVrfydjOI
We do not have religious freedom in the USA.
It shows he’s a great attorney and a crappy legislator.
All true! A lawyer arguing before SCOTUS is impressive — in the world of lawyers. In the Real World, dealing with day-to-day issues that face both blue-collar and white-collar citizens the lawyer skills may not translate well.
To argue before SCOTUS:
- You have months or years to prepare.
- You have a staff of other lawyers, paralegals, etc., to research and write the brief(s).
- You have exactly 30 minutes before SCOTUS to READ the brief handed to you by staff.
- You do not question witnesses.
- You answer SCOTUS members’ questions if there are any.
- There is no jury of peers.
In a regular, non-SCOTUS, case:
- You prepare your case, again, with help from staff, paralegals, etc.
- You write the script — and there is a script unless you’re Perry Mason.
- You question a witness, knowing the response. (”Never ask a question you don’t know the answer to.”)
- That response takes you to the next point in your script.
- Continue the Q&A, per the script. Ask, “rinse, repeat” — until done.
- You employ theatrics for the benefit of the jury — vocal gymnastics, gestures with your arms and body.
- You hope the jury bought it, and either they do or they don’t.
True, it’s impressive in the world where he lives, but it doesn’t involve living in, or working in, the Real World. It doesn’t involve thinking on your feet. It doesn’t involve multi-tasking, or multi-faceted skills.
He CERTAINLY doesn’t have the instinctual skills of discernment required to choose people to support him. Glen Beck? Mitt Romney? Really?
I’ve watched or read most of the debates and I like Cruz. I would have very little problem with him being president. But what about trade and jobs for Americans? The stuff that has CEOs, bundlers, the GOP, the Dems and special interests mad at Trump?
Trump wants to raise the salary of H1-B visa holders to give Americans the advantage on jobs.
Container ships come from China full. They go back to China one third full. This bothers Trump.
Sending our technology to foreign countries bothers Trump.
Having China build our planes bothers Trump.
Nation building in the mid-East bothers Trump.
Taxing our country’s corporation’s work in other countries twice, bothers Trump.
Where is Ted Cruz on this unequal trading? What are his positions on trade agreements and our sovereignty?
https://www.tedcruz.org/issues/jobs-and-opportunity/
Flat Tax of 10 percent, family of 4 not taxed under $36,000. Not good.
Lower federal regulations on business’s sounds good
If by “the REINS Act” he means making the EPA go thru congress before enacting fines and regulations, then yes, this would be good. But it doesn’t say that.
Ending the Waters rule and Clean Power Plan is a common sense idea.
Removing Federal impediments to energy exploration, development, and trade is too vague for me.
A stable dollar sounds good
Auditing the Federal Reserve sounds good
The internet stuff sounds good
Cruz sponsored 97 bills
http://thecommontruth.net/2/post/2016/02/what-has-ted-cruz-accomplished.html
How many passed?
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