Roberts betrayed a lot of people who genuinely believed he’d uphold the Constitution. That can’t be laid at Cruz’s feet.
But it demonstrates that this isn’t some problem that can be fixed with a platitude.
You are either going to have to appoint friends or known political partisans, or let the dice fly on that guy that checks off some surface boxes, but will do whatever if the mood hits him.
That is why we have what we have.
But I DO lay at his feet, the authority of Congress to dictate to the Courts what they can/cannot even take-up and NOT USE THAT ability.
Course, since I have no concept of what a ‘principled conservative’ IS (OK w/ a ‘safety net’, Kelo, taxes [ala O’Care]). I’d rather have him state, clearly, he’d push and FIGHT for “original constitutionalism”. There is NO lawyer-ly wiggle-room in those two words.