Posted on 07/09/2015 10:52:14 AM PDT by Isara
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I am reluctant to call for retention elections it makes me sad, Mr. Cruz, a 2016 GOP presidential contender, said Wednesday evening on MSNBCs Hardball. But I have done it because I believe that a majority of the justices are not honoring their judicial oaths.
Host Chris Matthews responded by saying that the Supreme Court seized the presidency in 2000 in halting the recount in Florida and that Mr. Cruz, who wrote in his new book, A Time for Truth, about his role in the 2000 recount, did not complain.
Those are great talking points. How many times did they count the ballots in Florida? Mr. Cruz said.
Four, Mr. Matthews said.
Four times. How many times did Bush win? Mr. Cruz said.
Four times. They wanted to try one more time, Mr. Matthews said.
The Democrats strategy was were going to keep counting and counting and counting and counting and eventually maybe enough people will cheat and somehow our guy will win, Mr. Cruz said.
Mr. Matthews said he thought it was an issue of states rights, which you usually champion, and equal protection.
I describe how the first time the Supreme Court unanimously vacated what the Florida Supreme Court did, Mr. Cruz said. When it came down, you know what the Florida Supreme Court did? It told the U.S. Supreme Court go jump in a lake, didnt even cite its opinion.
It was partisan defiance of the court, and frankly, what the Florida Supreme Court did in the Bush versus Gore recount is the same thing the U.S. Supreme Court did with Obamacare and marriage.
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I just wonder if any conservative would win.....I can’t imagine a majority would reelect Thomas or Alito......then again Ginsburg would have been gone 5 years ago. I think it depends on when the elections are whether we would do well or not. I think off Presidential Elections, we would do great, but during Presidential elections, we’d end up with some liberal judges on the Supreme Court. It would be interesting to see the make up of the court if we started this 10 years ago.
Reading the last few SCOTUS decisions it’s cleat the intent of the judiciary is already dead anyway.
Get back to me when they get around to impeaching and removing the lawless usurpers on the court.
We all know the legally correct decisions are the ones we agree with.
Better to simply limit members SCOTUS to a single six year term.
A six year term sounds reasonable.
Ted Cruz smackdown...
I understand that the court has become very politicized.
But putting a Supreme Court Justice for general election seems wrong to me.
I think we need to elect a President with values, and light a fire under the Senate to confirm decent justices.
Yeah, but if they know there is a deadline, they might become even more dangerous:
“...woe to the earth and the sea, because the devil has gone down to you! He is filled with fury, because he knows that his time is short.” Rev. 12:12
Its like hiring a plumber and expecting him to fix your faucet, not tune your car.
The intent of the judiciary was to make stuff up and then come up with convoluted ways to justify it so we would all be forced to live with it and having no realistic means of checking them or limiting their power? Huh, learn something new every day.
Well, there are some alternatives. Have each justice assigned to a slot on the court which gets has to get reconfirmed every 9 years so only one per year is ever on the hot seat. Would they possibly be booted by a partisan congress so they could get their own in? Maybe so. But at least they would all have to defend themselves and their rulings in public and suffer the consequences if they could not. And by limiting it to one per year, it would take years to change the complexion of the court overall. In the meantime, elections of congress could hold them accountable if they start trying to pack the court by removing justices for frivolous reasons.
That's called checks and balances, which we now lack.
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