Here’s an interesting irony. I get bashed on here a lot for being a die-hard Cruz supporter until the bitter end in 2016, and for sincerely believing that Cruz would have made a stronger effort than Trump of finding ACTUAL conservative SCOTUS judges, instead of just paying lip service to that.
Cruz NOW says in hindsight that he had problems with BOTH of Trump’s first two picks (Gorsuch and Kavanaugh) and expressed those concerns to Trump privately:
Of course, that wasn’t what he said at the time... at the time he made sure to PUBLICLY be a “Team Player” and spread the Official Party Line about how awesome they were, and how fantastic it was that Trump picked them:
Bottom line, Ted Cruz should have had the balls to PUBLICLY express his doubts about Gorsuch and Kavanaugh at the time, if his gut feeling was they couldn’t be trusted. Instead, he just swallowed his pride and touted the administration’s propaganda, so he wouldn’t be seen as a bitter NeverTrumper.
So Ted Cruz has some flaws, but ironically its for the OPPOSITE reason most FReepers think are is his flaws.
Kinda like how Herbert Hoover was a crappy President, but for the OPPOSITE reason most Americans believe he was.
I supported Cruz initially too, because I didn’t thnink Trump was serious about it.
But as things wore on, I saw that Trump would not quit, just kept hammering away, and saying the things I myself would have said to the others as well.
He was the right man for the right time in our HIstory, much like Reagan was.
I don’t know. It’s like we get “textualists” in K, G, and B and they suddenly find in the text nothing that will help us. We get “activists” in the Wise Latina and in Kagan and they find in the text everything that will hurt us.
I have no answer for this. If all these judges Trump put in don’t matter, then a major feather in his presidential cap has gone missing.
BTW, I did warn several times that we have all Catholics and Jews on the USSC but not any evangelical Protestants, despite the fact they are either a majority or close in this country. I think someone from Liberty Law School or Regent may have some different views.
In hindsight it seems miraculous we ended up getting REAL conservatives like Thomas, Alito, and Scalia, on the court.