June 30, 2015 - Ted Cruz on John Roberts: 'He violated his oath,' 'he changed the law'
Posted on 01/17/2016 11:50:22 AM PST by springwater13
Republican presidential frontrunner Donald Trump said Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts has "turned out to be a nightmare for conservatives," and put some of the blame for Roberts' presence on the Court on 2016 rival Sen. Ted Cruz.
"Cruz fought like hell to get Justice Roberts in there. Justice Roberts turned out to be an absolute disaster, he turned out to be an absolute disaster because he gave us Obamacare." Trump told ABC News chief anchor George Stephanopoulos on “This Week†Sunday.
Trump repeatedly went after Cruz, who served as a law clerk for Supreme Court Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist from 1996 to 1997, saying Cruz supported Roberts when he was nominated to the Court in 2005.
Trump noted that Roberts had two opportunities to overturn the Affordable Care Act, which was most recently upheld by the Supreme Court last summer, adding that Roberts "gave us Obamacare. Almost as much as [President] Obama himself."
"Justice Roberts could've killed Obamacare and should've, based on everything - should've killed it twice," Trump said. "Ted Cruz is the one that was promoting him."
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With all due respect, that’s was like trying to paper over the San Andreas Fault.
The guy didn’t even come close to making a Constitutional ruling in that case. It wasn’t even in the same universe.
If Trump had appointed this guy, you would have never forgotten it.
And his Daddy gave us Souter.
Off subject a bit....
Ted Cruz Failed To Disclose Ties To Caribbean Holding Company
An old college friendship led to financial entanglement with a Jamaican private equity firm and a British Virgin Islands holding company.
Neither was disclosed during his 2012 campaign.
http://swampland.time.com/2013/10/18/ted-cruz-failed-to-disclose-ties-to-jamaican-holding-company/
“Has Cruz yet spoken out about what a disaster Justice Roberts is?”
Oh, yes recently. The problem is we would have never heard of John Roberts if Cruz hadn’t recruited him for Bush..TWICE. Ironic isn’t it...Cruz filibusters over Obamacare and HE is the reason we got stuck with it!
Cruz, now running a fiercely conservative campaign for president, seemed to have a much different take on Roberts on Thursday when the Supreme Court issued its second major ruling protecting the Affordable Care Act, also known as Obamacare....
http://www.businessinsider.com/ted-cruz-is-bashing-john-roberts-after-years-of-praising-him-2015-6
A Nightmare for the United States is more like it.
Hmm, whatever happened to Santorum?
But Ted has one of the sharpest legal minds in the nation.
Out of every Republican Senator that was for Roberts, you pick the guy that those in power hate the most? Like Cruz would give his opinion, and voila’ everyone falls in line. This falls on GW, the man that actually said...”THE CONSTITUTION IS JUST A PIECE OF PAPER”, signed the Campaign Finance Reform even though he said it would be overturned and doubled the national debt? The man in charge is responsible for all that happened under his “leadership”, not a young Senator from Texas in the beginning of his term.
Spin it anyway you like.
1. Ted Cruz brought John Roberts on board in the Bush administration
2. He championed him as a sound Constitutional man
3. He championed him for the Chief Justice
4. Today we have Obamacare that was single-handed approved by John Roberts (unconstitutionally)
Those other people aren’t running for office
Ted is
This is a real example of his inability to protect the nation with regard to justice appointments
“That’s going to leave a mark. Now Cruz is juggling three balls.”
Maybe a fourth, misreporting loan/campaign donations.
Maybe a fifth; his Goldman Sachs - investment banker CFR wife’s career
Was Trump talking about conservatives as, “them” or “us”...do you see the difference? I’d like to know the context, because if he meant “them”, well, then he is yet to get it.
I’ll still vote for him in the general, don’t get me wrong...however, still I’m a Cruz guy.
It’s hard not to like a guy who keeps saying exactly what so many people are already thinking!
I regard Trump as a constitutionally low-information candidate who is clueless about 10th Amendment-protected state powers (corrections welcome). And while I agree with Trump that Obamacare has to go, regarding his disdain for Justice Roberts on passing Obamacare, I wonder on what basis Trump thinks that Roberts, and other state sovereignty-ignoring justices, wrongly decided that Obamacare is constitutional.
If elected, note that Trump needs to successfully lead Congress to propose a healthcare amendment to the Constitution to the states before buiding another healhcare program from scratch which he has said he will do. After all, maybe the states think that they can do a better job with their own healthcare programs and reject a national healthcare program.
As mentioned in related threads, below is laundry list of excerpts from Supreme Court case opinions, wrongly ignored by the Roberts Court imo, that reasonably show that previous generations of state sovereignty-respecting justices had clarified that the states have never delegated to the feds, expressly via the Constitution, the specfic power to regulate, tax, spend and insure for INTRAstate healthcare purposes.
”State inspection laws, health laws, and laws for regulating the internal commerce of a State, and those which respect turnpike roads, ferries, &c. are not within the power granted to Congress. [emphases added]” - Gibbons v. Ogden, 1824.
”Congress is not empowered to tax for those purposes which are within the exclusive province of the States.” - Justice John Marshall, Gibbons v. Ogden, 1824.
”Inspection laws, quarantine laws, health laws of every description [emphasis added], as well as laws for regulating the internal commerce of a state and those which respect turnpike roads, ferries, &c., are component parts of this mass.” - Justice Barbour, New York v. Miln., 1837.
” 4. The issuing of a policy of insurance is not a transaction of commerce [emphasis added] within the meaning of the latter of the two clauses, even though the parties be domiciled in different States, but is a simple contract of indemnity against loss.” - Paul v. Virginia, 1869. (The corrupt feds have no Commerce Clause (1.8.3) power to regulate insurance.)
”Direct control of medical practice in the states is obviously [emphases added] beyond the power of Congress.” - Linder v. United States, 1925.
he isnt corrupt, he’s just spineless. they got to him.
Trump making a complimentary passing remark about his Sister
He said she'd make phenomenal SC justice. That's the topic here.
As for her suitability, read the link on her ruling on partial birth abortion. Also see Trump's past support for abortion including partial birth.
Regarding whom Trump admires or compliments now, I'm going to assume you're aware of whom he admired, complimented and supported in the past.
Many thought Roberts was a strong Conservative.
well. he’s dead right about the traitor roberts.
unquestionably, roberts (bush appointee) is the man who destroyed the last vestige of SC constitutional relevancy with one horrific, freakshow vote. for me, it’s now a question of what they had on him, what he was paid, or how a pure leftist got appointed by a supposedly conservative bush. and i can still hear pelosi saying he was their guy; that he was going to surprise everyone.
what a disaster he’s been.
Cruz promoted another candidate (can’t remember the name right now), but once GWB selected Roberts, Cruz got on board. Cruz wasn’t the boss, he was the employee. GW Bush was the boss.
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