Just a reminder...
By Ted Cruz
John Roberts should be a quick confirm.
In 1995, while clerking for Chief Justice William Rehnquist, I and my two fellow law clerks asked the chief whom he thought was the best Supreme Court lawyer currently practicing. The chief replied, with a twinkle in his eye, that he thought he could probably get a majority of his colleagues to agree that John Roberts was the best Supreme Court advocate in the nation. This week, the president announced his intention to nominate John Roberts to be a Supreme Court justice.
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In November of 2000, I had spent the past year and half as domestic-policy adviser on the Bush campaign, and was part of the team assembling the lawyers to help litigate Bush v. Gore. We needed the very best lawyers in the country, and I called John and asked him to help. Within hours, he was on a plane to Florida.
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As an individual, John Roberts is undoubtedly a principled conservative, as is the president who appointed him. He clerked for Chief Justice Rehnquist, worked in the Reagan White House, and served as the principal deputy solicitor general in President George H.W. Bush’s Justice Department. But, as a jurist, Judge Roberts’s approach will be that of his entire career: carefully, faithfully applying the Constitution and legal precedent.
Read more at: http://www.nationalreview.com/article/214989/right-stuff-ted-cruz
Honestly. Did ANYONE see JR’S 180 degree turn? Did YOU?
Sometimes you have faith in people and they let you down.
Must be nice knowing the perfect candidate.
Holy crap. Nice find....
Just a reminder.....
From 2012:
John Roberts is No Longer Appearing on Conservative Merit Badges
http://wayback.archive.org/web/20121103145825/http://www.slate.com/blogs/weigel/2012/07/09/john_roberts_is_no_longer_appearing_on_conservative_merit_badges.html
It says seven years ago in this article written in 2012
That is a tremendous amount of time for things to change... Roberts either has been corrupted, bribed, or blackmailed. Regardless. I think it is fair to say he hasn’t lived up to what Cruz thought of him.
Seven years ago, during the confirmation hearings for John Roberts, Texas Solicitor General Ted Cruz penned a gushing op-ed for National Review.
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Not anymore. When Roberts helped save “Obamacare,” Cruz immediately blasted the Court for having “abdicated its responsibility to safeguard the Constitution.” He didn’t mention Roberts by name, but he insisted that the decision was more proof that Republicans needed to reject Cruz’s opponent, Lt. Gov. David Dewhurst. “My opponent is, by nature and by over a decade of political office, a conciliator. Now is not a time for conciliation.”
It is a possibility that Roberts was threatened by 0bama with investigation of the adoption of his children from Ireland which prohibits foreign adoptions.
I like Cruz fighting for what’s right.
He hasn’t succeeded in doing much and that’s the Washingtonians fault, not his.
It’s also not his fault that some 230 years after the Constitution was ratified we don’t have a clear position on who can run for POTUS.
Cruz’s participation in this cycle is vital.