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Cruz: We Should Be Able To Impeach Supreme Court Justices
Real Clear Politics ^ | July 1, 2015

Posted on 07/01/2015 1:30:22 PM PDT by 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

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Texas
KEYWORDS: 2016election; cruz; election2016; impeachscotus; tedcruz; texas
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To: Up Yours Marxists
Stop talking and do it. Call it to a vote on the Senate floor, like you did on the sequester.

Impeachment would follow the same process as for Clinton. House first, then Senate trial.

It's in John Boehner's court.

21 posted on 07/01/2015 1:52:10 PM PDT by Colonel_Flagg ("No social transformation without representation." - Justice Antonin Scalia)
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To: Boogieman

This was tried once before, when Jefferson was President. His supporters impeached Justice Samuel Chase, a Federalist appointed by George Washington, but fell short of the required votes in the Senate. Two-thirds vote is required. When have the Republicans had a 2-1 margin in the Senate? Perhaps for a while in the 1860s when the Southern states were not represented.


22 posted on 07/01/2015 1:56:09 PM PDT by Verginius Rufus
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To: Boogieman

This was tried once before, when Jefferson was President. His supporters impeached Justice Samuel Chase, a Federalist appointed by George Washington, but fell short of the required votes in the Senate. Two-thirds vote is required. When have the Republicans had a 2-1 margin in the Senate? Perhaps for a while in the 1860s when the Southern states were not represented.


23 posted on 07/01/2015 1:56:09 PM PDT by Verginius Rufus
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To: bkepley

They shouldn’t do it for political reasons regardless. They should do it based on Amendment X and the fact they rewrote the SCOTUscare yet again.

Decisions were based on two very important states rights cases where the majority of states involved didn’t want either one steamrolling them into submission. Both were politically-charged cases. Both were extortion cases against the states, the will of their people, and the will of the people of the United States of America.

That doesn’t bode well for SCROTUS or the parties celebrating. That only angers the states more. That angers the people most.

Those in Congress who vote against removal should be voted out of office on a rail, tar and feathered, and heavily investigated for fraud.


24 posted on 07/01/2015 1:57:03 PM PDT by Up Yours Marxists
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To: Colonel_Flagg

That is true. What is also true is Cruz has plenty of pull in the House. He’s shown it several times before.

Just do it again. If they say no, grill them with a public denouncement.


25 posted on 07/01/2015 2:01:07 PM PDT by Up Yours Marxists
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To: SoConPubbie

There have been 15 federal court judges impeached. Only one, Samuel Chase,
Associate Justice, was a member of the Supreme Court of the United States.

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http://www.fjc.gov/history/home.nsf/page/judges_impeachments.html

Samuel Chase, Associate Justice, Supreme Court of the United States. Impeached
by the U.S. House of Representatives on March 12, 1804, on charges of arbitrary
and oppressive conduct of trials; Acquitted by the U.S. Senate on March 1, 1805.


26 posted on 07/01/2015 2:10:18 PM PDT by deport
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To: SoConPubbie

Cruz, read the constitution, you can.


27 posted on 07/01/2015 2:16:48 PM PDT by CodeToad (If it weren't for physics and law enforcement I'd be unstoppable!))
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To: SoConPubbie

two of the justices should be impeached as they were incapable of being balanced because they officiated at gay weddings


28 posted on 07/01/2015 2:17:25 PM PDT by ckilmer (q)
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To: Up Yours Marxists
Just do it again. If they say no, grill them with a public denouncement.

I'm with you. I'm a Cruz guy, but he wants judicial elections. I want them GONE.

29 posted on 07/01/2015 2:18:43 PM PDT by Colonel_Flagg ("No social transformation without representation." - Justice Antonin Scalia)
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To: deport

And one of them, Alcee Hastings, has been a sitting Congressman for 22 years.


30 posted on 07/01/2015 2:21:17 PM PDT by cumbo78
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To: SoConPubbie
Excuse me, but why is no one here appreciating that we finally have someone already in public office with a shot at CIC who is SAYING THESE THINGS AT ALL?????

He's saying, and the Lamestream reporters have about given up shutting him down on his blasphemy, that every burp of the Supreme Court is not "the Law of the Land." It's only the case when it's in fact the law of the land.

This is a teachable moment, and he's swatting the desk with his 3-foot ruler. It will take time, but he has already changed the conversation. He's good copy, so they're interviewing him on this—and he's an expert who isn't afraid of Supreme Court justices. You've got to start there, and he's doing it. Say "Thank you, Ted!" or be revealed as wimpy children.

Before you get the "able," you have to stick your neck out and raise the troops for "willing."

31 posted on 07/01/2015 2:22:32 PM PDT by SamuraiScot
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To: Up Yours Marxists

At least two of them should have recused themselves. Kagan and Ginsburg.

What are the rules on that IF there are any rules?


32 posted on 07/01/2015 2:22:32 PM PDT by Qwackertoo (Worst 8 years ever, First Affirmative Action President, I hope those who did this to us SUFFER MOST!)
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To: 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.

From the Article:
Today, we have a United States Senate we can't muster 50 votes to defeat Loretta Lynch, an Attorney General who tells us she is not going to follow the law or the constitution. There's no universe in which there are 67 votes to remove [Justice] Anthony Kennedy from the Supreme Court.

33 posted on 07/01/2015 2:22:47 PM PDT by SoConPubbie (Mitt and Obama: They're the same poison, just a different potency)
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To: SoConPubbie
Everything Sen. Cruz proposes is designed to get America back on a Constitutional path.

That's why we need him more than ever in the White House.

Thanks D.

34 posted on 07/01/2015 2:23:21 PM PDT by PROCON (CRUZing into 2016 with Ted.)
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To: CodeToad

Cruz doesn’t have to read the Constitution. He has known every word of it by heart since he was thirteen years old.

Impeachment has to start in the House.


35 posted on 07/01/2015 2:36:59 PM PDT by conservativejoy (We Can Elect Ted Cruz! Pray Hard, Work Hard, Trust God!)
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To: SoConPubbie

So?

Call ‘em out. Call it to the floor as a resolution. Call the idiots to the carpet.

Lead, follow, or get the hell outa the way. I’m tired of the “we can’t do it because we have too much resistance” crap. Do the Alinsky and embarrass them personally and politically.

There is no high ground. This is war. When in Rome. People better get prepared for it or go home cryin’ with their tail between their legs.


36 posted on 07/01/2015 2:38:32 PM PDT by Up Yours Marxists
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To: SoConPubbie
In 1970, there was a half-hearted move by Republicans in Congress to impeach Justice William O. Douglas after he published a book entitled Points of Rebellion (New York: Random House, 1970) that likened America's "establishment" to King George III and suggested its overthrow. However, the bill died in a committee chaired by Rep. Emmanuel Celler (D-NY), an ultra-leftie.
37 posted on 07/01/2015 2:38:42 PM PDT by Fiji Hill
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To: Fiji Hill

They CAN impeach judges


38 posted on 07/01/2015 2:39:57 PM PDT by GeronL
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To: Colonel_Flagg

Yes. I like Cruz...as a political strategist.

We need a Patton kinda guy to lead us outa this hellhole.


39 posted on 07/01/2015 2:41:57 PM PDT by Up Yours Marxists
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To: Up Yours Marxists

They better be sure the public is behind it because it’s a very extreme threat.


40 posted on 07/01/2015 3:24:43 PM PDT by bkepley
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