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.
To defend Cruz, let me say that Roberts in fact DID have a very conservative record, before he went to the Supreme Court. Roberts changed, not Cruz.
But Trump’s most-quoted “constitutional expert” has a long paper trail of being very very liberal. I am speaking of Lawrence Tribe of Harvard, mentor of Obama, Sotomayor and Elena Kagan.