Posted on 09/18/2020 9:45:14 PM PDT by conservative98
Sen. Ted Cruz on Friday urged his fellow lawmakers to nominate and confirm a Supreme Court justice before the Nov. 3 presidential election following the death of Ruth Bader Ginsburg, warning of a looming “constitutional crisis” if the seat remains vacant.
“We cannot have Election Day come and go with a four-four court,” Cruz said during an interview with Fox News’ Sean Hannity. “A four-four court that is equally divided cannot decide anything. And I think we risk a constitutional crisis if we do not have a nine-justice Supreme Court, particularly when there is such a risk of a contested election.”
The Texas Republican — one of President Trump’s 20 potential nominees to the court, according to a list issued last week by the White House — called on Trump to nominate Ginsburg’s successor next week. Ginsburg died Friday due to complications of metastatic pancreatic cancer. She was 87.
“I think it is critical that the Senate takes up and confirms that successor before Election Day,” he said. “There’s going to be enormous pressure from the media, there’s going to be enormous pressure from the Democrats to delay filling this vacancy. But this election, this nomination is why Donald Trump was elected. This confirmation is why the voters voted for a Republican majority in the Senate.”
Cruz continued: “I’ll tell you one reason in particular why I think it is tremendously important that not only does the nomination happen next week, but that the confirmation happen before Election Day. Democrats and Joe Biden have made clear they intend to challenge this election. They intend to fight the legitimacy of this election. As you know, Hillary Clinton has told Joe Biden ‘under no circumstances should you concede. You should challenge this election.'”
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Boy, aint that the truth.
And after Kavanaugh, we need to assume the Democrats will not act in good faith. There's actually no need for hearings. Fill the seat.
She was a dim bulb. You can’t be considered brilliant if your vote on any subject is 100% predictable. She was a soulless automaton.
cruz is a winning ticket on legal training, legal heavyweight lifting, nomination process, respect and concern for the election process, and 2A / strict constructionism.
we don’t need another ‘bouncing betty” in the USSC right now.
Kinda like when people, out of courtesy, greet you with..’How are you” but they really don't want to hear how bad things might be. It's just a greeting. RIP is rather like saying...BYE!
im not sure new jersey will be counted, since every person voting in person has to do provisional, then they have to check each vote against the absentee list.
https://statutes.capitol.texas.gov/Docs/EL/htm/EL.204.htm
ELECTION CODE
TITLE 12. ELECTIONS TO FILL VACANCY IN OFFICE
CHAPTER 204. VACANCY IN CONGRESS
SUBCHAPTER A. VACANCY IN SENATE
Sec. 204.001. APPLICABILITY OF SUBCHAPTER. This subchapter applies to the office of United States senator.
Acts 1985, 69th Leg., ch. 211, Sec. 1, eff. Jan. 1, 1986.
Sec. 204.002. TEMPORARY APPOINTMENT TO FILL VACANCY. The governor shall appoint a person to fill a vacancy in office if the vacancy exists or will exist when congress is in session. The appointee serves until a successor has been elected and has qualified.
Acts 1985, 69th Leg., ch. 211, Sec. 1, eff. Jan. 1, 1986.
see response #48
You’re right
“...a four-four court,” Cruz said...”
Cruz gets it.
if cruz is nominated and democrats vote en bloc against cruz or even approaching that, then imho that should be a good litmus to us all as to how close we are to civil war ii.
“RBG has been said by people I respect to be seriously brilliant”
Maybe not so much. She shoulda quit when she was “ahead”.
it might be of interest to try to figure out who should be the replacement for cruz should cruz agree to be drafted into the USSC...
Cruz’ wife was a member of the The Council on Foreign Relations...
So brilliant that she consistently ruled against the sacred lives of aborted babies for so many years. There's a special place in hell for this "brilliant" jurist. May the good Lord deal with her with as much "brilliance" as she had for those millions of unborn children.
“All the Democrats would vote for him to get him out of the Senate!”” -Trump
That was a funny one [of many, many].
But on the other hand, she’ll still be able to vote . . . twice if need be.
Thanks for pointing out that her birthday is on November 2.
aha... btw, what is her name— kellyanne conway?
:)
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