Cruz: We Should Be Able To Impeach Supreme Court Justices

Real Clear Politics ^ | July 1, 2015

[SoConPubbie]

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"It's pure politics," Cruz said. "The Framers wrote about judicial overreach quite a bit. They believed the check would be impeachment. Now, here is the sad reality. Within a few decades Thomas Jefferson said impeachment had been not even a scarecrow."

SEN. TED CRUZ: Last week's decisions were the latest in a long line and sadly were the nadir of the Supreme Court. It was majority of the Justices on Thursday, rewriting Obamacare, disregarding the law and forcing the failed law on millions of Americans, hurting millions of Americans. On then on Friday the marriage decision was utterly contrary to the constitution. They're simply making it up. And as Justice Scalia said in dissent that decision was an assault on our democracy. It was five unelected lawyers setting themselves -- and these are Scalia's words -- up as the rulers of all 320 million Americans. It was illegitimate and it was wrong.

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CRUZ: Let's be clear. What I am talking about is judicial retention elections which means you would have the same appointment, the same Senate confirmation but every eight years the people would have an up or down vote with an option to remove them.

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CRUZ: Well, I can tell you that 20 states have put in place judicial retention elections and they have worked, the people have used them sparingly. But the alternative is who in their right mind would design a system where every major public policy issue of the day is decided not by the people, not by the constitution, not by elected representatives but by nine elite lawyers in Washington

[SoConPubbie]

"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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[Ingtar]

If we had a Republican majority, rather than a Progressive majority, this would be possible.

[SoConPubbie]

If we had a Republican majority, rather than a Progressive majority, this would be possible.

He basically makes that point in the article.

[Up Yours Marxists]

Mr. Cruz. The Constitution grants full authority to Congress to remove any justice for “bad behavior”. Stop talking and do it. Call it to a vote on the Senate floor, like you did on the sequester.

[JoeProBono]

[Ingtar]

With the current voting and cheating mechanisms, votes for the USSC would end up with 9 Kagans.

[cripplecreek]

Able and willing are miles apart.

[bkepley]

If they tried to do it for political reasons or differences in SC rulings the country would not back it in my opinion and the result would be very bad and unpredictable.

[Rodamala]

YOU ARE ABLE TO.

[hosepipe]

“WE” can’t impeach the President for obvious glaring in your face documented treason... multiple counts.. with a promise to do MORE?...

And you want to impeach a judge?...
What are you smoking Ted?..

[ConservativeDude]

at the purely theoretical level...if we had a functioning republic, impeachment would be the main recourse that we the people have against judges.

again, in theory, retention votes by the people is a much more democratic check and it is (again...in the world of theory...) inferior to impeachment by the house and trial by the Senate (which should of course be a Senate NOT democratically elected....).

Sigh.

[Boogieman]

Yeah, Congress can already impeach them. They just don’t have the guts to do it.

[DiogenesLamp]

Cruz: We Should Be Able To Impeach Supreme Court Justices

Yes we should. Retroactively, along with their decisions.

I would Impeach Harry Blackmun, et al.

[DannyTN]

Just pass legislation removing authority for the judiciary to rule on marriage.

The legislature has removed other things from the judiciary’s jurisdiction before. Why not marriage?

[bestintxas]

Mitch McConnell says no.

http://www.newsmax.com/Newsfront/gay-marriage-mitch-mcconnell-congress-ted-cruz/2015/07/01/id/653065/

[Diamond]

I would Impeach Harry Blackmun, et al.

He's dead, Jim.

However, a Convention of States could propose and pass an Amendment overturning his hideous Roe v Wade.

Cordially,

[bestintxas]

“Yeah, Congress can already impeach them. “

Not just impeach but to remove.

A lot of difference between those two terms

[DiogenesLamp]

He's dead, Jim.

I know, but I think he deserves the Cromwell treatment.

[bestintxas]

“Mr. Cruz. The Constitution grants full authority to Congress to remove any justice for “bad behavior”. Stop talking and do it. Call it to a vote on the Senate floor, like you did on the sequester.”

Gotta start in the House with impeachment prior to being heard in the Senate