Posted on 12/12/2016 10:05:55 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
A deal is being brokered for Senator Ted Cruz to fill a Supreme Court vacancy in exchange for a pro-Trump replacement in his Texas seat.
Source: A deal is being cut which would see Cruz nominated on the condition that a pro-Trump Republican could be found to replace him in the Senate.
Unclear whether Cruz would be immediately nominated to replace Justice Antonin Scalia.
Cruz was not on Trumps list of potential Supreme Court picks vetted by Federalist Society.
Cruz is currently publicly planning to run for re-election in 2018.
Source: Privately he's ready and willing to become a Supreme Court Justice.
Alan Dershowitz on Cruz: One of the best students I ever had.
Source: Cruz is widely praised as a legal scholar and orator, but is disliked by Senate colleagues.
(FRESNO, CA) Texas Senator Ted Cruz is set to be nominated for a position on the Supreme Court by President-elect Donald J. Trump if current trends hold, a source close to the process tells GotNews.
The source told GotNews that a deal is being cut which would see Cruz nominated to the Supreme Court on the condition that a pro-Trump Republican could be found to replace Ted Cruz in the Senate.
It is unclear whether Cruz would be immediately nominated to replace Justice Antonin Scalia, who died earlier this year, or if his nomination would come later. While Cruz was not on Trumps list of potential Supreme Court picks, he undoubtedly fits the bill as a staunch conservative constitutionalist.
Cruz, who won his Texas Senate seat in 2012, is publicly planning to run for re-election in 2018. Privately, it seems hes ready and willing to become a Supreme Court Justice.
Ted Cruz was Donald Trumps earliest ally and final foe in the Republican presidential primaries. He has steadily reconciled with Trump since the Republican National Convention in Cleveland in July earlier this year.
Cruz has been described by his former law professor and world-famous lawyer Alan Dershowitz as one of the best students I ever had. Cruz is widely praised as a legal scholar and orator, despite being notoriously disliked among his Senate colleagues.
That dislike may make a Cruz confirmation very easy in the Senate.
You need to find out the actual FACTS, before you post such utter crap!
Cruz doesn’t know anything about judicial work.
I think Trump has to select the first justice from his list, as otherwise it will appear he is going back on his campaign promise. Perhaps if there is a second or third opening on the SC, Cruz might work.
The Dems would welcome a 69 year being nominated. It’ll probably be Lawrence Tribe replacing Scalia.
And Teddykins would be like his BFF, Roberts....a POS.
If they are going to nominate an old person, Janice Rogers Brown would be 100 times better than Moore.
Yes, it’s called “dual citizenship”.
Every serviceman’s child who is born in another country faces the same issue - dual citizenship. Do we have to throw back all those children too .. just to please you ..??
AND why would Ted Cruz attempt to get Mitch the Senate to ‘resolve’ him eligible to hold the office of president, like the Senate did for lord McCain in 2008?
I don’t have a problem with him being SCOTUS. He’s a strict Constitutionalist. That’s what counts.
A very small, yet really big part, of just what constitutional law is taught, if a case can be decided by statute, code, etc., do so, as to avoid the constitutional question(s)!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
The paragraph above, demonstrates why you pay the BIG BUCKS for those Ivy League Schools, with professors like Alan Dershowitz.
I am sorry to inform you that Ted Cruz uses our Constitution like the New York Slimes and Washington Compost uses the English language. Ted Cruz talks a good preachy game, but he exempts himself from 'original intent'.
Find a mirror.
Larry Tribe is a long-standing libtard.
Look what Harvard Law School produces. Brack Obama, Lizzy Warren, Mitt Romney, and Ted Cruz... The 'law' is a business game to all of these people... There is a drug like high when a 'new' precedence can be created out of words.. The Constitution does NOT give authority to any governing body to mess with 'natural born' US citizenship. It is where 'we the people' have power and control. Only US citizen parents giving birth to their offspring on US soil creates a 'natural born' US citizen.
So is Alan Dershowitz. Libtards call our Constitution a 'living' document... Tribe's point was that Ted Cruz made his bonfides at Harvard a 'conservative' that followed the 'original' intent of the Constitution. But when the mod asked Cruz specifically about his eligibility problem, the answer Cruz gave, caused Larry to speak out and call Cruz a hypocrite.
Tribe could care less about 'natural born' US citizenship ... but he sure was quick to point out who Ted Cruz claimed he was, and how he in reality was NOT.
It is most evident, that Ted Cruz knows full well that he is NOT nor will he ever be a 'natural born' US citizen, when he tried to get Mitch the Senate to 'resolve' himself eligible for the office of president.
You are so definitive but if you were right there would be no ISSUE for servicemen/woman’s children to face. In fact many servicemen’s children born overseas to foreign women are not able to obtain any form of US citizenship. Think Vietnam for an easy example.
He was until he decided he wanted to run for POTUS perhaps. I do not believe his principles are equal to his self interest.
Excellent. He will make a great Justice.
Cruz hates the Constitution.
Cruz is open borders, foreign control of trade, pro H-1B.
Cruz is a tyrant.
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