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Posted on 01/25/2016 8:03:19 AM PST by justlittleoleme
Liberals won't like it.
If Ted Cruz is elected president, he has big plans for the Supreme Court -- namely, picking extremely conservative candidates to fill any vacancies among the nine justices.
In an interview with Bloomberg, the Senator and former solicitor general from Texas said that Republicans are generally bad at picking nominees for the high court, and that he'd be different.
"Unlike many of the other candidates, I will be willing to spend the capital to ensure that every Supreme Court nominee that I put on the court is a principled judicial conservative," Cruz said.
As solicitor general, Bloomberg notes, Cruz argued in front of the court on behalf of his state.
Cruz specifically called out Chief Justice John Roberts, appointed by George W. Bush, and Anthony Kennedy, appointed by Ronald Reagan, as bad picks. Roberts has gotten a lot of flack among conservatives in recent years for voting to uphold Obamacare, while Kennedy was castigated by the right for writing the opinion this year to legalize gay marriage.
The next president will likely have a few vacancies to fill. Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Antonin Scalia, and Anthony Kennedy will all be over 80 years old by election day, while Stephen Breyer will be 78.
So how would Cruz find truly conservative justices? He said he'd look for candidates with "a long paper trail as principled conservative jurists." This means jurists who've actually made decisions, rather than the sometimes more politically palatable candidates without as much of a record.
How can you say that when Cruz is going against the very Constitution he is supposed to respect by running? He is not eligible in his own words until he changed his mind and got on the Cheap Labor Express who fund him.
Probably the most important things we would be selecting when we vote for a President.
Our nation is in peril. Our relatively short (just over 200 year) experiment in representative democracy is in peril.
Didn’t Trump say he would nominate Judge Judy ??
:)
I agree. See Article II, Section 1, Clause 5.
I don’t know, why don’t you ask Cruz that question of is that one of the things he has sealed?
But it demonstrates that this isn’t some problem that can be fixed with a platitude.
You are either going to have to appoint friends or known political partisans, or let the dice fly on that guy that checks off some surface boxes, but will do whatever if the mood hits him.
That is why we have what we have.
Hmmm...I’m recalling the glowing things Mr. Cruz said about how incredibly conservative John Roberts was going to be on the Court...
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I remember the same thing. Wonder why so many others forget it.
I’m a Cruz fan. But, I have a problem with him supporting John Roberts as fervently as he did and then saying nothing (that I’ve heard) about him stepping outside of the law to write that horrendous decision about Obamacare being a tax when they argued it wasn’t a tax.
I will write this slowly so than even a Trump Kim Kardashian voter will be able to understand it.....Is Cruz’s mother a naturalized citizen?
You must have evidence to the contrary, please submit.
So there he uses the phrase again. It still doesn't tell me what he means by "spend the capital". It must mean something, or he could have just left it at saying he'd appoint proven conservatives.
Quick, name five people who are Conservatives with a history of conservative rulings.
Okay, four.
How about three?
Two?
One, surely there is one judge who is a Conservative with a history of conservative rulings.
In his own words, what?
Actually, it demonstrates that the courts should NOT have the final say when their rulings run counter to the Constitution.
If you watched the debates, he addressed that. He voted on and supported Roberts on his “known” paper trail. That’s why he prefers all future candidates have a long paper trail.
Maybe not the answer your looking for but that how he explained it. Long paper trails didn’t work out to well for Bork though.
These are the two key issues. Conservative federal judges and no amnesty.
On those issues, I trust Cruz.
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Have you really examined Cruz’s record on illegals....how he wants to make them legal so they can “come in out of the shadows.” Do you think as president he will not revert back to this stance, just to enhance his popularity with the flooding invasion of illegals and their supporters, the Cheap Labor Express? IMHO his own words condemn him. He is also not for the wall as he dodged all over the place saying it would come after securing the border .....”secure the border first, then we’ll see later” That was exactly the same thing Reagan fell for. The EXACT same play script. Amnesty, then secure the border. Well, Reagan signed the amnesty, but the border was never secured. I don’t trust Cruz and I don’t think he is eligible either.
From Ted Cruz is bashing John Roberts after years of praising him...
According to a 2005 Sun-Sentinel report, Cruz once praised Roberts as "one of the best constitutional minds in the country."
Cruz reportedly made that comment while explaining why, as a domestic policy adviser for George W. Bush's 2000 presidential campaign, he brought Roberts to Florida to assist with his team's legal battle over the controversial post-election recount.
And as the Texas Tribune reported three years ago, when Bush nominated Roberts to the Supreme Court in 2005, Cruz "was an outspoken advocate for his confirmation, calling him 'brilliant' and a 'lawyer's lawyer.'"
"As an individual, John Roberts is undoubtedly a principled conservative, as is the president who appointed him," Cruz wrote at the time in the National Review. "But, as a jurist, Judge Roberts's approach will be that of his entire career: carefully, faithfully applying the Constitution and legal precedent."
Cruz helped convince Bush to appoint who he now calls a "bad pick." Can you believe this guy? I can't.
You are consistent propagandist.
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You have to elected President to pick SCTUS justices. Cruz can advise Trump.
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