June 30, 2015 - Ted Cruz on John Roberts: 'He violated his oath,' 'he changed the law'
Hmm, whatever happened to Santorum?
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.
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.
Roberts has certainly been unreliable.
He might have a bit more credibility on this subject if he didn’t recently join leftists in ripping Antonin Scalia and suggest his lunatic leftist sister would be a great supreme court judge.
Hank
Kelo v. New London CT was also a disaster but Trump whole heartedly supported that decision and still does, and apparently wouldn’t mind appointing judges who would make similar decisions.
Is Trump saying he could have foreseen how Roberts would have turned out on Obamacare in a way Cruz did not? Did Trump speak out at the time against Roberts arguing he’d make some bad decisions with the liberal block on the court?
The only plausible rumor I’ve read about Roberts strange behavior is that he has been allegedly blackmailed over the allegedly illegal adoption of his children. If so, he couldn’t have made things better by resigning with Obama appointing his successor.
It’s a good sign Trump can see the mess it’s put us in... means he’s much LESS likely to make a bad pick.