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CRUZ or LOSE!
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 MSNBC’s “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 we’re 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,’ didn’t 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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Makes me think you are dangerous.
SCOTUS should trade in their robes for clown costumes.
It’s very dangerous to have judicial elections-—threatens the intent of the judiciary. yet some people around here love it
The thought of those smug marxists on the court who think they have all the time in the world to destroy the nation they hate suddenly aware they may one day soon become just another bitter misfit on the fringes warms my heart.
Ted Cruz Ping! I didn’t realize that Chris Matthews was relevant.
So its preferable to have the marxists currently on the court clearly violating their sworn oaths to the Constitution and instead help facilitate a totalitarian leftist utopia?
People have already elected Barack Obama twice. What makes you think they’ll pick the right judges? You’re supporting lunacy.
retention..
DETENTION......thats what’s needed here!!
You think the status quo is fine, I guess. And thats not lunacy?
He gives another reason too - that Congress is and will remain derelict. Impeachment is off the table, but it shouldn’t be.
The people don’t pick the replacements, they just retire the ones that hand down unpopular decisions (without regard to whether or not the decision was the legally correct one).
You’ll be praising the Court on other matters if you agree with the decisions. hypocrisy abounds
Beware of the UK Xulk Nalk men in black hooded robes that make white people very afraid
We would have to change the Constitution, would we not?
Unless one wants to interpret the “Good Behaviour” clause to make it subject to voter approval.
“Has Judge Roberts acted with Good Behaviour”? would be on the ballot....
Although that really does NOT seem to be what the Founders intended.
What’s needed are gallows not elections.
So Chris Matthews didn’t realize that the recounted and recounted in Florida?
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