Sen. Ted Cruz: Supreme Court Justices 'Violated Their Oaths'

NBC News ^ | JUN 29 2015

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Republican Texas Senator and presidential hopeful Ted Cruz spoke to TODAY's Savannah Guthrie on Monday about the latest Supreme Court rulings in an appearance Monday to discuss his new book, "A Time For Truth: Reigniting the Promise of America."

When asked by Guthrie about his comments that the court rulings upholding the health care law and making same-sex marriage legal was "a dark day for America," Cruz said that a majority of the Supreme Court justices, whom he called "5 unelected lawyers...violated their judicial oaths." Cruz thinks it should be up to the states to vote for gay marriage laws.

Cruz said he would support a Texas state clerk that refused to marry a gay couple on religious grounds, even though gay marriage was just ruled legal nationwide by the Supreme Court. "Religious liberty is right at the foundation of our country," said Cruz.

Cruz also defended his views to support a constitutional amendment that would subject Supreme Court justices to "retention elections." When Guthrie asked him why he would support changing something the nation's founders did not intend, Cruz said the Supreme Court had become politicized. "The elites on the court look at most of the country as flyover country," he said.

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"If we must have an enemy at the head of Government, let it be one whom we can oppose, and for whom we are not responsible, who will not involve our party in the disgrace of his foolish and bad measures." - Alexander Hamilton "We don't intend to turn the Republican Party over to the traitors in the battle just ended. We will have no more of those candidates who are pledged to the same goals as our opposition and who seek our support. Turning the Party over to the so-called moderates wouldn’t make any sense at all." -- President Ronald Reagan "A thing moderately good is not so good as it ought to be. Moderation in temper is always a virtue; but moderation in principle is always a vice." - Thomas Paine 1792 "It does not take a majority to prevail, but rather an irate, tireless minority, keen on setting brushfires of freedom in the minds of men." - Samuel Adams "If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, go home from us in peace. We ask not your counsels or your arms. Crouch down and lick the hands which feed you. May your chains set lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen." - Samuel Adams

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[cripplecreek]

Aye, that they did. Some of them anyway.

[dware]

I agree. Which means articles of impeachment should already be filed. Who has those at this time? When will the articles be filed?

[VanDeKoik]

“When Guthrie asked him why he would support changing something the nation’s founders did not intend”

The founders didn’t grant SCOTUS any of the power they have. They just kind of walked in and assumed it.

[manc]

where is Rand the panderer Paul on all of this ? He probably agrees with it.

[TBP]

Six of them, anyway.

So, Senator, what do you plan to do about it?

[Lurker]

Good point and good questions.

L

[South40]

This is creating law, something it is clearly not competent to do and something it was never supposed to do.

[tflabo]

Pox be upon the traitorous blacked robed perverts of SCOTUS.
May they reap the garbage they have sown.
less the righteous ones there....

[Bob434]

[[Sen. Ted Cruz: Supreme Court Justices ‘Violated Their Oaths’]]

So what are you going to do about it? If this isn’t grounds for impeachment then what is? they VIOLATED their OATH and BETRAYED Americans and ABUSED their position of power in doing so!

[[Cruz said he would support a Texas state clerk that refused to marry a gay couple on religious grounds,]]

That’s it? Just throw up our hands and say “Oh well, although it was illegal for the court to make the law, they made the law, therefore we must quietly protest it’? Really? How about REFUSING to allow ANY state clerk to perform gay marriages and getting a number of states to join you in civil disobedience in direct defiance of the CORRUPT Supreme court?

[SoConPubbie]

where is Rand the panderer Paul on all of this ? He probably agrees with it.

Yup! I'd bet that being the good little Libertarian that his actions and words prove he is, he is just fine with this ruling.

[South40]

I'm no defender of Paul but he has chimed in.

Rand Paul breaks silence on gay-marriage ruling

[Bob434]

agreed- there should be a forum here on FR to gather users together to send letters to the senators asking them this very question- The TEa Party should be sending, en mass, letters asking the same thing- putting pressure on those running for office

[chris37]

Yes, they did, and unless they are held accountable immediately, they will continue to do exactly that, and so will every other federal activist judge in this country.

[tflabo]

No fools like a buncha old fools in black sleepy robes -—whats Mama Cass so happy about? Just ate a happy meal? Let the unwise latina get her moron snooze in. Grandma Buzzie and Grandpa Baldy Lefties are their normal catatonic drone selves. AnPhoney Kennedy is the flexible caboose— hooks up to the leftist train when his self glory is on stage. Contemptible bunch.

[SoConPubbie]

Thank you for posting that link where Rand Paul is concerned.

But he did punt on the issue, as I assumed he would.

[South40]

Yeah, he’s a worm. I’d like to see the media hit him with the hard questions like it does Cruz.

[tflabo]

Rand like his daddy is squishy unappealing— same goes for the Jebbers.

[virgil]

The court is deserving of our contempt since they have so much for us.