Ted Cruz would make a superb SCOTUS justice himself. That's the job that's most suited to his talents, intellect, and background, more so than POTUS or Senator.
He can be both..
weve already had a president who went on to be chief justice...
Absolutely agree. This may ultimately be his calling.
actually, that would be a brilliant move. Cruz on SCOTUS would be better than Cruz in the White House.
Imagine 30 years or more of Constitutional rulings from the Third branch—it’d be great.
Yeah, but Ted Cruzes and Ronald Regans are few and far between. We need a staunch constitutionalist to repair the damage done by the immigrant muslim socialist racist in cheif.
Only AFTER HE SERVES AS OUR NEXT PRESIDENT for 8 years. THEN he can retire to the Supreme Court if that is possible.
That’s a good point. Given the federal government’s constitutionally limited powers, all that senators and presidents do these days is exercise constitutionally nonexistent federal government powers.
Can a former POTUS be appointed to the Supreme Court?
Yes, he would make a great Supreme Court Justice, or as president he would have the knowledge and wisdom to pick the right Supreme Court justices.
We know what his fundamental convictions will be as we knew Ronald Reagan.
Any one can spout out great sounding speeches and wow the crowds, but it’s a totally different thing to know what the person’s convictions and values are.
I’m glad to see him in any of those positions.
“Ted Cruz would make a superb SCOTUS justice himself.”
I used to think that Justiceseeker93, until I read a statement attributed to Cruz misinterpreting the 14th Amendment, contradicting its principle author, Congressman John Bingham. Criz does raise many issues for which I appreciate his voice in Congress, but where careful and honest interpretation of Supreme Court decisions depending upon constitutional interpretation, “original jurisdiction” as provided by Article III section 2, Cruz has chosen the political path, probably acknowledging the success by supporters of both parties, both of whose candidates in 2008 failed the Constitutional requirements for becoming president, though there is no law preventing them from running.
Cruz is in “good” company. Mark Levine cites Obama’s Harvard law advisor Larry Tribe and former Solicitor General Ted Olson, who offered the misdirection, the 1st Congress’ Nationality Act from 1790 as the reason John McCain should be considered a natural born citizen, when they, along with every U.S. Senator, all of whom signed Senate Resolution 511 in April 2008, knowing that the 1790 act, the only law proposing to interpret natural born citizenship, was entirely rescinded in 1795. Those are facts. If anyone cares, read the act. Both parties have calculated that few people care enough to read it themselves. This is just a symptom of the further degradation of the intent of our framers and founders.
Cruz can ignore it but by so doing he has deigned to assume his personal authority to provide definitions useful to himself and his supporters. I think we can do better, but enemies of our individual sovereignty based upon laws and not men have won this battle. We will see where a “living Constitution” leads us. We already have much evidence with a Supreme Court making new law including defining marriage, authorizing new taxation, defining environmental risks, and on and on.