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Cruz: Supreme Court 'abdicating its duty'
The Hill ^ | October 6, 2014 | Ben Kamisar

Posted on 10/06/2014 3:22:22 PM PDT by jazusamo

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To: right way right

Cruz called for Holder’s impeachment, over the IRS targeting conservatives. He’s pushed off expressing an opinion on impeachment of Obama, by saying that job is up to the House.


21 posted on 10/06/2014 4:07:55 PM PDT by Cboldt
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To: Theodore R.

I can hardly wait till they find out that God is still the same God as he was back then.


22 posted on 10/06/2014 4:08:22 PM PDT by right way right (America has embraced the suck of Freedumb.)
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To: Cboldt

Ah!
Correct.
It was Palin who stirred the nest a while back.


23 posted on 10/06/2014 4:10:01 PM PDT by right way right (America has embraced the suck of Freedumb.)
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To: jazusamo

Sometimes I think Ted Cruz is the only Republican leader speaking out ... And given what he says, I like it. I will vote Republican because I think it is the only responsible vote. I want to vote for Ted Cruz.


24 posted on 10/06/2014 4:10:04 PM PDT by af_vet_1981 (The bus came by and I got on, That's when it all begani)
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To: right way right

I hear ya’. Half the GOP has acquiesced to homosexual marriage being normalized, the other half is for it.


25 posted on 10/06/2014 4:10:33 PM PDT by Cboldt
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To: right way right

My remark about impeachment was a refefence to impeaching the members of SCOTUS for abdication of duty.


26 posted on 10/06/2014 4:12:07 PM PDT by Cboldt
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To: af_vet_1981

That is a good bumper sticker phrase.

“I want to vote for Ted Cruz.”


27 posted on 10/06/2014 4:12:09 PM PDT by right way right (America has embraced the suck of Freedumb.)
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To: stockpirate

I respectfully disagree. I think the idiots were inadequately vetted on their understanding of the Constitution at their confirmation hearing; OR, the Senator’s “advising and consenting” at the various hearings were TOO LIBERAL to be Senators in the first place; OR, the Senators themselves, including those that might have been lawyers, just did not know history or the Constitution to any minimal degree and therefore did not understand it’s importance in the big scheme of things.

I’m glad it happened now though, perhaps it will make some conservatives moderate their anger and get ready to vote whatever republican is up against a damn Democrat! At this point, it’s a matter of life or death for the USA.


28 posted on 10/06/2014 4:13:50 PM PDT by Cen-Tejas (it's the debt bomb stupid!)
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To: jazusamo

Cruz tells it like it is. The court are TRAITORS!


29 posted on 10/06/2014 4:15:19 PM PDT by Viennacon
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To: Cboldt

Ok. twice corrected.
And it is congress who has the authority and no testicles.

I should start a riot instead of this posting comment stuff.

Kidding.


30 posted on 10/06/2014 4:16:13 PM PDT by right way right (America has embraced the suck of Freedumb.)
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To: jazusamo
Unfortunately, it is constitutional, at least the way modern justices have interpreted the 14th Amendment.

The US Constitution: 14th Amendment

Fourteenth Amendment to the US Constitution - Rights Guaranteed Privileges and Immunities of Citizenship, Due Process and Equal Protection

AMENDMENT XIV of the UNITED STATES CONSTITUTION

Passed by Congress June 13, 1866. Ratified July 9, 1868.

Section 1. All persons born or naturalized in the United States and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside. No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.

Section 2. Representatives shall be apportioned among the several States according to their respective numbers, counting the whole number of persons in each State, excluding Indians not taxed. But when the right to vote at any election for the choice of electors for President and Vice President of the United States, Representatives in Congress, the Executive and Judicial officers of a State, or the members of the Legislature thereof, is denied to any of the male inhabitants of such State, being twenty-one years of age, and citizens of the United States, or in any way abridged, except for participation in rebellion, or other crime, the basis of representation therein shall be reduced in the proportion which the number of such male citizens shall bear to the whole number of male citizens twenty-one years of age in such State.

Section 3. No person shall be a Senator or Representative in Congress, or elector of President and Vice President, or hold any office, civil or military, under the United States, or under any State, who, having previously taken an oath, as a member of Congress, or as an officer of the United States, or as a member of any State legislature, or as an executive or judicial officer of any State, to support the Constitution of the United States, shall have engaged in insurrection or rebellion against the same, or given aid or comfort to the enemies thereof. But Congress may by a vote of two-thirds of each House, remove such disability.

Section 4. The validity of the public debt of the United States, authorized by law, including debts incurred for payment of pensions and bounties for services in suppressing insurrection or rebellion, shall not be questioned. But neither the United States nor any State shall assume or pay any debt or obligation incurred in aid of insurrection or rebellion against the United States, or any claim for the loss or emancipation of any slave; but all such debts, obligations and claims shall be held illegal and void.

Section 5. The Congress shall have power to enforce, by appropriate legislation, the provisions of this article.



31 posted on 10/06/2014 4:16:27 PM PDT by Bratch
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To: af_vet_1981

Yes...I will vote for Sen. Ted Cruz for president when and if he runs because he’s conservative and is not afraid to speak out for conservative values and issues.

Go Ted Cruz!


32 posted on 10/06/2014 4:17:09 PM PDT by jazusamo (Sometimes I think that this is an era when sanity has become controversial: Thomas Sowell)
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To: SoFloFreeper

God must be letting the devil run wild for awhile to punish us as a nation before he casts him down into the lake of fire forever...


33 posted on 10/06/2014 4:17:50 PM PDT by jsanders2001
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To: right way right

Hahahahaha. Sometimes I feel like a riot myself. Most of time, I just ignore the bastards. Freedom is first of all, a state of mind. Once in a riot, it become harder to stay under the radar.


34 posted on 10/06/2014 4:19:37 PM PDT by Cboldt
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To: jazusamo
I may not like the end result, but it's hard to imagine what role the U.S. Supreme Court has in any of these state issues.

If a state wants to rule that a relationship between five men, three women, two dogs and fifteen parakeets constitutes a "marriage," then so be it. This is where the Court's refusal to take these cases is consistent with their prior DOMA ruling. There is simply no provision of the U.S. Constitution that establishes a Federal role in marriage law.

P.S. This is why even "originalist" justices like Scalia and Thomas refused to take the case.

35 posted on 10/06/2014 4:33:47 PM PDT by Alberta's Child ("What in the wide, wide world of sports is goin' on here?")
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To: jazusamo

Congress has abdicated its duty


36 posted on 10/06/2014 4:36:03 PM PDT by GeronL (Vote for Conservatives not for Republicans)
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To: Theodore R.

Yes, but of course we both know it REALLY doesn’t matter if they believe the Bible; it is still true.


37 posted on 10/06/2014 4:36:08 PM PDT by SoFloFreeper
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To: Cboldt

“Congress can cut the budget for the Court as a whole, but it can;t cut the pay of the judges. Well, not within the Constitution, anyway.

The Judges, both of the supreme and inferior Courts, shall hold their Offices during good Behavior, and shall, at stated Times, receive for their Services a Compensation which shall not be diminished during their Continuance in Office.

Article III, section 1 “

Well,Then we’re screwed.No wonder we have an out of control Judiciary.


38 posted on 10/06/2014 4:44:22 PM PDT by puppypusher ( The World is going to the dogs.)
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To: jazusamo

Well, if they don’t follow God’s laws, they will probably go the hell. Just that simple.


39 posted on 10/06/2014 4:51:31 PM PDT by Karl Spooner
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To: SoConPubbie

Ted is the ONE who is standing up for right... one of the ONLY ONES!!!! GO TED!!!!


40 posted on 10/06/2014 5:03:29 PM PDT by pollywog ( " O thou who changest not....ABIDE with me")
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