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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“Impeachment has to start in the House.”
Let’s hear that from Cruz.. Fact is he can lobby for impeachment instead of giving lip service to We the People just don’t have the power. We elected him to do the impeachment.
I think he knows it is futile with Boehner at the helm. As he said, if there are not 51 votes to stop the appointment of another A.G. who acknowledges that she will not enforce the law, where do we get 2/3 vote to impeach anyone.
If anything is to be done, it would have to be a concerted grassroots effort behind some of our Reps. and Senators.
That was a great interview. Kelly was SOOOO systemite about judges, pretending they aren’t political creatures. Her response was “why make it more political?”
I’m sitting there thinking, “If it’s political, and you’re admitting it, then why in the world would we protect them from the people’s election???”
Of course up until 2016, impeachment would mean Obama got to pick the next justices.
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