Posted on 04/24/2021 10:39:13 AM PDT by Twotone
A Georgetown law student confronted Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) on Thursday about "court packing," redefining the term to demand why Cruz was opposed to efforts by Democrats to expand the number of justices on the Supreme Court by four.
Cruz was speaking at a news conference with Sens. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) and Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.) in front of the Supreme Court about a Democratic bill to expand the number of justices on the Supreme Court from nine to 13. The senator from Texas accused Democrats of making a "power grab."
"You didn't see Republicans, when we had control of the Senate, try to rig the game. You didn't see us try to pack the court," he said.
After his remarks, a self-identified "law student" approached the senators and demanded to know what the difference was between "packing the courts" and the Republican Senate majority's actions in 2016 to prevent a Democratic president from filling vacancies on the court and in 2020 to install a Republican-nominated justice.
"Senators, how is court packing any different than what the Republicans did in 2016 and 2020?" the law student asked.
"We filled vacancies, that's not packing the court," Cruz responded.
"They're doing something that's allowed under the Constitution," the student pressed. "It's not an obstruction to the rule of law if it's in the law."
"Sure it is," Cruz replied. "It's politicizing the court."
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Probably should have tried or, at a minimum, float a trial balloon that the RAT's and media would have gone berserk over.
The one trait Mr. Cruz shares with Mr. Trump (and Desantis does this as well) is that they don’t accept the premise of questioners. Cruz does a nice job of pointing out the core flaw of this students argument.
I think pretty much everyone disagrees with Traitor Roberts who claimed there are no 0bama judges.
” Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. issued an extraordinary statement contradicting Mr. Trump, albeit without naming him. “We do not have Obama judges or Trump judges, Bush judges or Clinton judges,” Mr. Roberts said . “What we have is an extraordinary group of dedicated judges doing their level best to do equal right to those appearing before them.””
It’s hard to take Liberals and Leftists “to school”. They’re, for the most part, incapable of shutting their mouths long enough to actually listen to the other side. Just watch any video of Owens, Rubin, Kirk, Shapiro, D’Souza, they spend a good portion of their time just getting the person to shut up. If/when that is done they can usually take them to the wood shed. And it’s always funny to see them question someone, in this case Cruz, with a prepared question and “their facts”, while Cruz, or others, have to think on their feet and still lose.
And this clown was no different.
I know he can’t because he can’t engage this moron, but one day I would love to see someone stop in their tracks and truly take one of these clowns down to where they’re speechless. Not going to happen, I don’t think.
But President Donald J Trump was the best and had no problems calling these people out for the fools they are.
Only flaw I see was Ted indicatrd Republicans could add more justices next time they take over.
Probkem is I seriously doubt that will ever happen again. Demographics is destiny and I am convinced the ballot box is largely lost forever at this point.
The 2020 election proved that “demographics” canard false. Unless nonexistent people are a “demographic” unto themselves?
The 2020 election was an anomoly because Trump is the reason Republicans in general did better. If Trump is not on the ballot in 2024 it will not be repeated.
The only canard being pushed is the myth of civic nationalism which gets it’s ass kicked most every election.... except of course when Trump was at the top of the ballot
Cruz is one of the most knowledgeable people in the country when it comes to the constitution. The kid had no chance.
Pure ignorance. It’s about power, not specifically about Trump. Kindly spare the TDS.
And if the Republicans who made “gains” in last years elections turn out to be Uniparty RINOs, that only confirms the trashing of the electoral system, which has been continuous for decades.
Democrats started this game with Robert Bork.
Perfesser, obviously you are dealing with professional disappointment given you are a Yale JD having to settle for Georgetown Law tenure, but you keep sending goons to harass Senate members and the Shitfits gonna hit the fan...
They did it earlier than that. They savaged two of Nixon’s appointees in 1969 and 1970. Clement Haynsworth and G. Harrold Carswell.
I would like to nominate Ted Cruz to the SCOTUS.
Me, too. Wouldn’t that make the Lefties head’s explode.
Great job, Ted.
Too bad that Dunce John Cornyn isn’t more like Cruz.
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