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Trump unveils Supreme Court list, includes Cruz and Cotton
The Hill ^ | 09 09 2020 | Morgan Chalfant and John Kruzel

Posted on 09/09/2020 2:10:34 PM PDT by yesthatjallen

President Trump on Wednesday announced an updated list of potential nominees to the Supreme Court that included three Republican U.S. senators and his former solicitor general.

Trump announced 20 additional potential nominees that would be added to a list of candidates for the Supreme Court, including Sens. Tom Cotton (R-Ark.), Ted Cruz (R-Texas) and Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) and Noel Francisco, who departed as solicitor general in June.

The move represents a bid to shore up his support among conservatives two months from the 2020 presidential election. In remarks at the White House, Trump warned that religious liberty, freedom of speech and the right to bear arms are all at risk if Democrats win the election, asserting that they would appoint “radical” justices to the high court.

“Over the next four years, America’s president will choose hundreds of federal judges and in all likelihood, one, two, three and even four Supreme Court justices,” Trump said in remarks from the Diplomatic Reception Room at the White House.

“The outcome of these decisions will determine whether we hold fast to our nation’s founding principles or whether they are lost forever,” Trump continued.

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TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: cotton; cruz; scotus; scotuslist; supremecourt; trump; trumpscotus
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To: CodeToad

That’s it!

I knew something wasn’t right with his name on the list but couldn’t put my finger on it.


61 posted on 09/09/2020 2:55:36 PM PDT by Balding_Eagle ( The Great Wall of Trump ---- 100% sealing of the border. Coming soon.)
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To: Jewbacca

They can’t seem to let go of 2016 either.


62 posted on 09/09/2020 2:55:43 PM PDT by DJ MacWoW (The Fed Gov is not one ring to rule them all)
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To: yesthatjallen

Ted Cruz has got no business being on the SC. He has shown that he either doesn’t understand what a Natural Born Citizen is (thus, too ignorant) or he is willing to argue against the plain intent of the Framers so as to aggrandize himself (thus, too corrupt).


63 posted on 09/09/2020 2:55:48 PM PDT by Paine in the Neck ( Socialism consumes EVERYTHING!)
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To: yesthatjallen
Update:

Sen. Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) said Wednesday that he would not accept a nomination to the Supreme Court shortly after President Trump named him on a shortlist of candidates for the high court.

“I appreciate the President’s confidence in listing me as a potential Supreme Court nominee,” Hawley tweeted Wednesday. “But as I told the President, Missourians elected me to fight for them in the Senate, and I have no interest in the high court. I look forward to confirming constitutional conservatives.”

64 posted on 09/09/2020 2:56:26 PM PDT by yesthatjallen
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To: Jewbacca

I was going to say the same thing for you Cruzbots - his ties to the Bush family and his globalist wife make him unacceptable for POTUS, but as SCOTUS Justice he would be great.


65 posted on 09/09/2020 2:56:28 PM PDT by datura
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To: Miss Didi

Where’s Mark Levin on the list?

I guess he is too old.


66 posted on 09/09/2020 3:03:13 PM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom ("And oft conducted by historic truth, We tread the long extent of backward time.")
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To: shove_it

Yup, I’d take Levin over Cruz. Levin is a fighter, Cruz is too squishy.


67 posted on 09/09/2020 3:03:38 PM PDT by Cobra64 (Common sense isnÂ’t common anymore.)
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To: yesthatjallen

Gorsuch got rid of whatever morality was left on the right with his decision giving homosexuals and transgenders civil rights. In many ways Trump is an amazing man, but the fact that he still praises Gorsuch makes me realize that Trump is but a speed bump in the race towards the end of this great nation.


69 posted on 09/09/2020 3:05:00 PM PDT by bramps (It's the Islam, stupid!)
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To: Cobra64

“I’d take Levin over Cruz. Levin is a fighter, Cruz is too squishy.”

That’s true. Cruz is too squishy and malleable. Levin would be better.


70 posted on 09/09/2020 3:05:37 PM PDT by MayflowerMadam (If 100% of us contracted this Covid Virus only 99.997% would be left to tell our story.)
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To: Miss Didi

Amy whatshername’s not on the list!!!


72 posted on 09/09/2020 3:05:56 PM PDT by ronniesgal (Q. why did the chicken cross the road? A. It's Trumps fault and you're a racist!)
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To: CodeToad

I’m open to being corrected, but if James Madison, able lawyer he, had wanted to clarify that point, he could have.

Let’s stipulate your point for the sake of argument. The term was “generally understood” at the time.

Congress has since, after a civil war and 27 amendments, provided clear statutory language that forms the legal basis for natural citizenship.

INAL, but it would appear that there would be at least two possible challenges to the current law:

1) it is unconstitutional since it seeks to re-define the commonly understood meaning of the term “natural born citizen” at the time the constitution was ratified and or;
2) using 8 USC 1401 to define ‘natural born citizen’ rests on the assumption that a person is ‘natural born’ if he doesn’t need to be “naturalized” to become a citizen. You could then argue that 8 USC 1401 is good enough for most things, but not good enough to qualify a person for the office of President. But I think that’s a stretch.

Something else: I’m not asking you to do my research for me, but if you have a ready reference to the use of the term “natural born citizen” from the period of say, 1780-1790 that supports your definition, I would be most appreciative. I’m always pleased to have my thinking corrected, if I am, in fact, in error.


73 posted on 09/09/2020 3:08:38 PM PDT by absalom01 (You should do your duty in all things. You cannot do more, and you should never wish to do less.)
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To: absalom01

The court would redefine water is wet if it was politically expedient. The LAST THING I would ever want to do is let 9 black robed dictators redefine the US Constitution. They’ve already done enough damage as it is.


75 posted on 09/09/2020 3:12:08 PM PDT by CodeToad (Arm Up! They Have!)
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To: yesthatjallen
Remember, Ted Cruz said to "vote your conscience", meaning do not vote for Trump. He said this as a guest speaker at the Republican convention in 2016.


76 posted on 09/09/2020 3:15:19 PM PDT by CodeToad (Arm Up! They Have!)
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To: ronniesgal; bakkentom

This is an additional list of names as there could be up to four nominations. Amy Coney Barrett is on the original list. POTUS released these names today so that Sleepy would release his list of radical leftist judges.


77 posted on 09/09/2020 3:18:02 PM PDT by Miss Didi ("After all...tomorrow is another day." Scarlett O'Hara, Gone with the Wind)
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To: CodeToad
"Cruz wasn’t a natural born citizen and tried to run for president which means he doesn’t respect our constitution."

Give it a rest. You were wrong before. You're still wrong.

78 posted on 09/09/2020 3:21:50 PM PDT by mlo
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To: yesthatjallen
Sen. Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) said Wednesday that he would not accept a nomination to the Supreme Court shortly after President Trump named him on a shortlist of candidates for the high court.

I think that Josh Hawley is more interested in someday nominating people to the USSC than being a member of the USSC.

79 posted on 09/09/2020 3:27:14 PM PDT by CommerceComet (Joe Biden: Showing his leadership by cowering in the basement like a scared child.)
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To: May Bee
I gree. No ted cruz.
I want people with judicial experience

You'll never know how hard I laughed when I read your post.

Ted Cruz’s (Brilliant) Legal Career

80 posted on 09/09/2020 3:27:59 PM PDT by DJ MacWoW (The Fed Gov is not one ring to rule them all)
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