The problem with the ‘clean out the Supreme Court’ rationale and Trump is his pro-abortion Judge sister who Trump see’s as a viable candidate for the nation’s highest court.
With 3 likely justices to come in the next four years... Cruz is the only candidate that will reliably clean out the court.
Cruz needs to be the nominee... Trump should be in charge of building the wall along our southern border.
“With 3 likely justices to come in the next four years... Cruz is the only candidate that will reliably clean out the court.”
That is nothing but an empty boast.
Or do you need to be reminded of Reagan’s SCOTUS picks and how they turned out?
Trump will NOT choose his sister. He already said so. The aborted baby part sales made a huge impact on him last year.
His favorite justices are all anti-Kelo. It just so happens that anti-Kelo is anti-Roe. But he’s trying to focus more on border safety and ‘Art of the Deal’ trade-diplomacy.
And Roberts is ‘a huge disappointment’ according to Trump.
With 3 likely justices to come in the next four years... Cruz is the only candidate that will reliably clean out the court.
Like he did when he championed Roberts, his friend, mentor and co worker!
Do you mean more Supremes like Roberts, an old friend and mentor of Cruz?
The Texas Tribune
Cruz, Justice Roberts Have History
by Aman Batheja July 9, 2012 5Comments
Within two hours of the U.S. Supreme Court releasing its opinion on the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act last month, former Texas Solicitor General Ted Cruz spoke out about the decision.
Cruz, a Republican competing against Lt. Gov. David Dewhurst in a July 31 primary runoff for an open U.S. Senate seat, called the decision âshamefulâ and described it as a âsad day for the court.â He accused the courtâs justices of being motivated by politics rather than upholding the U.S. Constitution.
It was a harsh assessment considering that Chief Justice John Roberts, a man whom Cruz has described as a mentor and friend, played a pivotal role in the law being upheld.
Roberts has drawn scorn from conservatives for his decision to side with the courtâs more liberal wing and uphold the controversial lawâs individual mandate as a tax. Subsequent reports have suggested that Roberts may have been influenced by issues other than the constitutionality of the law in making his decision.
When asked last week about his thoughts on Roberts’ role in the decision, Cruz said, âIt was heartbreaking and it was shocking.â
Both Cruz and Roberts clerked for Chief Justice William Rehnquist early in their careers, Roberts from 1980 to 1981, Cruz in the mid-1990s.
After Election Day in 2000, Cruz was a lawyer working on the legal battle over the Florida recount for the Bush/Cheney presidential campaign. Cruz told the Miami Herald that Roberts’ name was the first that came to mind when he was asked to help find lawyers to work on the litigation. Roberts reportedly helped with legal briefs and participated in a mock hearing to prepare Bushâs legal team.
âWe needed the very best lawyers in the country, and I called John and asked him to help,â Cruz later wrote in the National Review. âWithin hours, he was on a plane to Florida.â
When President George W. Bush nominated Roberts to the U.S. Supreme Court in 2005, Cruz was an outspoken advocate for his confirmation, calling him âbrilliantâ and a âlawyerâs lawyer.”
âAs an individual, John Roberts is undoubtedly a principled conservative, as is the president who appointed him,â Cruz wrote. âHe clerked for Chief Justice Rehnquist, worked in the Reagan White House, and served as the principal deputy solicitor general in President George H.W. Bushâs Justice Department.
âBut, as a jurist, Judge Robertsâs approach will be that of his entire career: carefully, faithfully applying the Constitution and legal precedent.â
Since the ruling, Cruz has kept his criticisms mostly focused on the court as a whole.
Dewhurst, though, has not shied from singling out Roberts.
âWhen Supreme Court Justice John Roberts sold constitutional conservatives down the river and held up the worst parts of the disaster called Obamacare, we knew we were in for a problem,” Dewhurst said at a press conference Friday at The Health Museum in Houston.
Both Dewhurst and Cruz are trying to convince Republican primary voters that they are best suited to lead the fight in Congress to repeal the federal health care law. The Supreme Court decision makes the issue an even more important one in their runoff, both said.
“In my first day in the United States Senate, Iâm going to lead the effort to repeal Obamacare, every single word of it, and replace it with permissive free-market reforms,” Dewhurst said Friday.
Cruz likewise vowed to work to overturn the law.
“Iâll throw my body in front of a train to stop anything short of its complete and total repeal,” Cruz said at a recent event in Willis.
http://www.texastribune.org/2012/07/09/cruz-and-roberts-go-way-back/