Posted on 10/06/2014 3:22:22 PM PDT by jazusamo
Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) on Monday slammed the Supreme Court for declining to hear appeals on lower court rulings that overturn same-sex marriage bans, calling the justices’ move “tragic and indefensible.”
“By refusing to rule if the States can define marriage, the Supreme Court is abdicating its duty to uphold the Constitution,” he said in a statement. “The fact that the Supreme Court Justices, without providing any explanation whatsoever, have permitted lower courts to strike down so many state marriage laws is astonishing.”
On Monday, the Supreme Court decided not to hear challenges to lower court rulings on same-sex marriage during its upcoming term. That effectively marked the end of the road for cases from five states: Indiana, Utah, Virginia, Oklahoma and Wisconsin. Without a Supreme Court challenge, the lower court rulings that allowed gay marriage to become law in those states.
Similar ramifications are likely to be felt in six other states that fall under the same circuit courts.
“This is judicial activism at its worst,” Cruz said. “Unelected judges should not be imposing their policy preferences to subvert the considered judgments of democratically elected legislatures.” Cruz is often vocal on legal issues. As the former solicitor general of Texas, he argued cases in front of the Supreme Court and, before that, he clerked for former Supreme Court Chief Justice William Rehnquist. He is also a member of the Senate Judiciary Committee.
The freshman Texas senator is a favorite among many Christian conservatives because of stances based upon his religious convictions, including a staunch opposition to same-sex marriage. In September, he won the presidential straw poll at the Value Voters Summit in Washington after a speech in which he repeatedly talked about his religious faith and said that Republicans should stick to socially conservative values.
Cruz included his own brief legal rationale for why he believed the court had erred and said that he will introduce a constitutional amendment to “prevent the federal government or the courts from attacking or striking down state marriage laws.” He also touted a bill he introduced in February that would force the federal government to follow an individual state’s definition of marriage.
In response to Cruz’s statement, the Democratic National Committee emailed out the entire text of his statement to reporters, along with photos of two female couples that were just married in Virginia and Utah.
Cruz called for Holder’s impeachment, over the IRS targeting conservatives. He’s pushed off expressing an opinion on impeachment of Obama, by saying that job is up to the House.
I can hardly wait till they find out that God is still the same God as he was back then.
Ah!
Correct.
It was Palin who stirred the nest a while back.
Sometimes I think Ted Cruz is the only Republican leader speaking out ... And given what he says, I like it. I will vote Republican because I think it is the only responsible vote. I want to vote for Ted Cruz.
I hear ya’. Half the GOP has acquiesced to homosexual marriage being normalized, the other half is for it.
My remark about impeachment was a refefence to impeaching the members of SCOTUS for abdication of duty.
That is a good bumper sticker phrase.
“I want to vote for Ted Cruz.”
I respectfully disagree. I think the idiots were inadequately vetted on their understanding of the Constitution at their confirmation hearing; OR, the Senator’s “advising and consenting” at the various hearings were TOO LIBERAL to be Senators in the first place; OR, the Senators themselves, including those that might have been lawyers, just did not know history or the Constitution to any minimal degree and therefore did not understand it’s importance in the big scheme of things.
I’m glad it happened now though, perhaps it will make some conservatives moderate their anger and get ready to vote whatever republican is up against a damn Democrat! At this point, it’s a matter of life or death for the USA.
Cruz tells it like it is. The court are TRAITORS!
Ok. twice corrected.
And it is congress who has the authority and no testicles.
I should start a riot instead of this posting comment stuff.
Kidding.
The US Constitution: 14th Amendment
Fourteenth Amendment to the US Constitution - Rights Guaranteed Privileges and Immunities of Citizenship, Due Process and Equal Protection
AMENDMENT XIV of the UNITED STATES CONSTITUTION
Passed by Congress June 13, 1866. Ratified July 9, 1868.
Section 1. All persons born or naturalized in the United States and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside. No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.
Section 2. Representatives shall be apportioned among the several States according to their respective numbers, counting the whole number of persons in each State, excluding Indians not taxed. But when the right to vote at any election for the choice of electors for President and Vice President of the United States, Representatives in Congress, the Executive and Judicial officers of a State, or the members of the Legislature thereof, is denied to any of the male inhabitants of such State, being twenty-one years of age, and citizens of the United States, or in any way abridged, except for participation in rebellion, or other crime, the basis of representation therein shall be reduced in the proportion which the number of such male citizens shall bear to the whole number of male citizens twenty-one years of age in such State.
Section 3. No person shall be a Senator or Representative in Congress, or elector of President and Vice President, or hold any office, civil or military, under the United States, or under any State, who, having previously taken an oath, as a member of Congress, or as an officer of the United States, or as a member of any State legislature, or as an executive or judicial officer of any State, to support the Constitution of the United States, shall have engaged in insurrection or rebellion against the same, or given aid or comfort to the enemies thereof. But Congress may by a vote of two-thirds of each House, remove such disability.
Section 4. The validity of the public debt of the United States, authorized by law, including debts incurred for payment of pensions and bounties for services in suppressing insurrection or rebellion, shall not be questioned. But neither the United States nor any State shall assume or pay any debt or obligation incurred in aid of insurrection or rebellion against the United States, or any claim for the loss or emancipation of any slave; but all such debts, obligations and claims shall be held illegal and void.
Section 5. The Congress shall have power to enforce, by appropriate legislation, the provisions of this article.
Yes...I will vote for Sen. Ted Cruz for president when and if he runs because he’s conservative and is not afraid to speak out for conservative values and issues.
Go Ted Cruz!
God must be letting the devil run wild for awhile to punish us as a nation before he casts him down into the lake of fire forever...
Hahahahaha. Sometimes I feel like a riot myself. Most of time, I just ignore the bastards. Freedom is first of all, a state of mind. Once in a riot, it become harder to stay under the radar.
If a state wants to rule that a relationship between five men, three women, two dogs and fifteen parakeets constitutes a "marriage," then so be it. This is where the Court's refusal to take these cases is consistent with their prior DOMA ruling. There is simply no provision of the U.S. Constitution that establishes a Federal role in marriage law.
P.S. This is why even "originalist" justices like Scalia and Thomas refused to take the case.
Congress has abdicated its duty
Yes, but of course we both know it REALLY doesn’t matter if they believe the Bible; it is still true.
“Congress can cut the budget for the Court as a whole, but it can;t cut the pay of the judges. Well, not within the Constitution, anyway.
The Judges, both of the supreme and inferior Courts, shall hold their Offices during good Behavior, and shall, at stated Times, receive for their Services a Compensation which shall not be diminished during their Continuance in Office.
Article III, section 1 “
Well,Then we’re screwed.No wonder we have an out of control Judiciary.
Well, if they don’t follow God’s laws, they will probably go the hell. Just that simple.
Ted is the ONE who is standing up for right... one of the ONLY ONES!!!! GO TED!!!!
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