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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,...

AIKEN, S.C. — Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts is "disgraceful" and a "disappointment" to conservatives, Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump said Saturday, while praising Associate Justice Clarence Thomas as his favorite member of the high court. "Justice Roberts really let us down. What he did with Obamacare was disgraceful, and I think he did that because he wanted to be popular inside the Beltway," Trump told about 4,000 supporters.

Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts is "disgraceful" and a "disappointment" to conservatives, Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump said Saturday, while praising Associate Justice Clarence Thomas is his favorite member of the high court. "Justice Roberts really let us down. What he did with Obamacare was disgraceful, and I think he did that because he wanted to be popular inside the Beltway," Trump told about 4,000 supporters. The celebrity billionaire was referring to the chief justice twice voting to uphold key provisions of President Barack Obama's 2010 health care law and to the expressway around the District of Columbia, an...

SNIP “It is true that after George W. Bush nominated John Roberts, I supported his confirmation. That was a mistake and I regret that,” he said. But he insisted that he’d fought behind the scenes for a more reliable — and proven — conservative jurist, appellate judge Mike Luddig, for whom he had worked.

"As an individual, John Roberts is undoubtedly a principled conservative, as is the president who appointed him. He clerked for Chief Justice Rehnquist, worked in the Reagan White House, and served as the principal deputy solicitor general in President George H.W. Bush's Justice Department. As a jurist, Judge Roberts' approach will be that of his entire career: carefully, faithfully applying the Constitution and legal precedent. He is a mainstream judge, respected across the ideological spectrum. Thus, he's earned praise from liberal icons such as Harvard Law Professor Larry Tribe, and Chicago Law Professor Cass Sunstein, as well as from Clinton...

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...

...... Just as Justice Owen Roberts' switch was attributed to the political storm of Democrat opposition to the Court's reversal of New Deal legislation, there is a widely cited report....that Chief Justice John Roberts had originally sided with the conservative dissenters in the ObamaCare decision, but changed his vote because of concerns about the political prestige of the Court in the eyes of the media and Washington elites. Owen Roberts destroyed his judicial papers. However..... He acknowledged that the Supreme Court's pro-New Deal decisions "reduce the states to administrative districts rather than coordinate sovereigns" and that his switch reached "a...

Make no mistake President Obama and his administration handlers lied and sold America a tax deception disguised as a health care law that will usher in a new age of socialism and old style communistic practices that would make Stalin blush. With the U.S. Supreme Courts upholding of the bulk of the Obama-careless bill, Americans will be saddled with the largest taxation ever experienced in the history of this nation. Yet, how did we arrive at this precipitous juncture in a nation which has at its foundation set in constitutional bedrock to protect its citizens from the nefarious acts of...

A California attorney lobbying the U.S. Supreme Court for a review of Barack Obama's qualifications to be president confronted the chief justice yesterday with legal briefs and a WND petition bearing names of over 325,000 people asking the court to rule on whether or not the sitting president fulfills the Constitution's "natural-born citizen" clause. According to Orly Taitz, the attorney who confronted Chief Justice John Roberts at a lecture at the University of Idaho, the judge promised before the gathered crowd that he would, indeed, read and review the briefs and petition. "I addressed him in front of 800 people...

The Supreme Court limited the use of the so-called exclusionary rule Wednesday and said that evidence seized by the police need not be thrown out if officers later learn their search warrant was faulty because of a computer mistake. Chief Justice John Roberts said the exclusionary rule was intended to deter the police from conducting illegal searches of homes and cars..... not intended to give criminals a free pass if officers search the wrong house or car because of a computer error at police headquarters, he said. In a 5-4 ruling, the court upheld the drug and gun charges against...

The Democrats' deepening division over the Supreme Court nomination of Judge John G. Roberts Jr. has angered many of their party's political allies on the left, some of whom warn that a vote for the conservative jurist will not soon be forgotten. No sooner had the nomination sailed through the Senate Judiciary Committee Thursday -- with yes votes from three of the panel's Democrats -- than several of the most influential liberal groups were openly chastising them in a rare public display of intraparty infighting. "We are disappointed that the Roberts nomination has moved forward and saddened that some Democrats...

WASHINGTON — John Roberts, hailed by supporters as "the brightest of the bright," cruised Monday toward easy confirmation as chief justice while President Bush hinted that his next pick to the Supreme Court could be a minority or a woman. "Diversity is one of the strengths of the country," the president said. Roberts, a 50-year-old federal appellate judge and the president's first pick for the Supreme Court, is assured of getting an overwhelming confirmation vote by the Senate later this week, making him the nation's 17th chief justice. Roberts is "the brightest of the bright," declared Majority Leader Bill Frist,...

In the end, it all came down to the issue of abortion for Sen. Dianne Feinstein, the California Democrat who yesterday voted against federal Judge John G. Roberts Jr.'s nomination to be chief justice of the U.S. Supreme Court. "I'm the only woman on this committee and when I started, I said that was going to be my bar," she told colleagues on the Senate Judiciary Committee yesterday. "And he didn't cross my bar." Mrs. Feinstein is usually among the first from her caucus to buck party loyalty and vote for a Republican nominee, but yesterday she refused even as...

The following is the transcript of the Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on the confirmation of Judge John G Roberts Jr, as provided by CQ Transcriptions. SPEAKERS: U.S. SENATOR ARLEN SPECTER (R-PA) CHAIRMAN U.S. SENATOR ORRIN G. HATCH (R-UT) U.S. SENATOR CHARLES E. GRASSLEY (R-IA) U.S. SENATOR JON KYL (R-AZ) U.S. SENATOR MIKE DEWINE (R-OH) U.S. SENATOR JEFF SESSIONS (R-AL) U.S. SENATOR LINDSEY O. GRAHAM (R-SC) U.S. SENATOR JOHN CORNYN (R-TX) U.S. SENATOR SAM BROWNBACK (R-KS) U.S. SENATOR TOM COBURN (R-OK) U.S. SENATOR PATRICK J. LEAHY (D-VT) RANKING MEMBER U.S. SENATOR EDWARD M. KENNEDY (D-MA) U.S. SENATOR JOSEPH R. BIDEN JR....

National Editorials: The Los Angeles Times: "It Will Be A Damning Indictment Of Petty Partisanship In Washington If An Overwhelming Majority Of The Senate Does Not Vote To Confirm John G. Roberts Jr. To Be The Next Chief Justice Of The United States." (Editorial, "Confirm Roberts," The Los Angeles Times, 9/20/05) The Los Angeles Times: "As Last Week's Confirmation Hearings Made Clear, Roberts Is An Exceptionally Qualified Nominee, Well Within The Mainstream Of American Legal Thought, Who Deserves Broad Bipartisan Support." (Editorial, "Confirm Roberts," The Los Angeles Times, 9/20/05) Chicago Tribune: "[R]oberts Richly Deserves To Be Confirmed: He Has The...

Senator Charles E. Grassley (R-IA), one of few non-lawyers to have served on the Senate Judiciary Committee, said that Judge John G. Roberts, Jr. is “six times” smarter than the average member of the Senate Judiciary Committee who would vote on the nomination of Judge Roberts for Chief Justice. Grassley hardly overstated Judge Robert’s qualifications. Senator Charles E. Schumer (D-NY) admitted to Fox News Television Host Bill O’Reilly that he might vote for Judge Roberts (although he probably will not). For three days Roberts faced the Senate Judiciary Committee without notes, answering questions about memoranda he had written while a...

WASHINGTON — The ranking Democrat on the Senate Judiciary Committee, Vermont's Patrick Leahy, said Wednesday that despite his reservations regarding John Roberts' commitment to civil rights and other issues, he would vote for him to be next chief justice of the United States Supreme Court. "Is a 'no' vote the easier and more popular one? Of course, for me it is, especially with my constituency," said Leahy. "But in my judgment, in my experience, but especially in my conscience, I find it is better in this nomination to vote 'yes' than 'no.'" Calling Roberts a "man of integrity" and saying...

WASHINGTON — As Supreme Court nominee John Roberts left his Senate confirmation hearings Thursday, Act Two of a ritualistic process began — witnesses from special interest groups began their analyses of the chief justice candidate. "All evidence indicates that Judge Roberts would use his undeniable impressive legal skills to bring us back to a country that most of us wouldn't recognize, where states' rights trump civil rights, where the federal courts or Congress can see discrimination, but are powerless to remedy it," said Wade Henderson, executive director of the Leadership Conference on Civil Rights. Complaints about Roberts' civil rights record...

Washington, DC (LifeNews.com) -- The nation's leading abortion business says it now opposes the nomination of John Roberts to become the next head of the Supreme Court. The abortion advocacy group says it believes Roberts would vote to overturn Roe v. Wade and would not support its policy of abortion without restrictions. After three days of confirmation hearings, Roberts "still refuses to answer" whether he would vote to uphold Roe v. Wade, Karen Pearl, Planned Parenthood's interim president, said in an email alert to members. "In light of this refusal to respond to direct questions about his commitment to [abortion],...

Day one of confirmation hearings saw differing views of the Constitution and the kinds of questions to be asked. Judge John Roberts' confirmation hearings got underway on Capitol Hill today. The Senate Judiciary Committee began the process which could lead to Roberts taking office in October as the next chief justice of the United States. After enduring hours of opening statements from the 18 committee members, the nominee, late in the day, was sworn in—and got a chance to make his opening statement. He left no doubt about where he stands. "Mr. Chairman, I come before the committee with no...