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Posted on 07/23/2015 9:53:19 AM PDT by SoConPubbie
WASHINGTON–Presidential candidate Ted Cruz put his other hat on today, that of a working member of the 100-person club known as the U.S. Senate — and with subpoena power no less.
Cruz convened a hearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee subcommittee on oversight, of which he is chairman. It began at 12:30 p.m. Dallas time and he called it: “With Prejudice: Supreme Court Activism and Possible Solutions.”
The hearing, says his press office, “will explore how the Supreme Court abuses its power by rewriting laws that Congress has passed and by inventing rights that are not in the Constitution.”
That offers a nice senatorial complement to a message he’s been making as a candidate for months, and with renewed vigor following last month;s decision by the Supreme Court to rule in favor of gay marriage and against a challenge to President Obama’s signature healthcare overhaul, the Affordable Care Act known as Obamacare.
Cruz, straddling his role as a candidate and senator, has introduced measures to amend the Constitution to undo the gay marriage ruling and to establish retention elections for Supreme Court justices, who now serve for life.
“Much to my great disappointment this past term the court crossed a line and continued its long descent into lawlessness to a level that demands action,” he said. “The court is not a body of jurists not a body of judges following the law but has declared itself a super legislature.”
Cruz, speaking in grave tones, opened the hearing by tying the court’s most recent decisions — especially on gay marriage and upholding Obamacare — to some of the court’s most controversial decisions in its history.
“We have seen the court’s imperialist sentiments previously,” Cruz said. Citing Dred Scott, which upheld slavery in 1857 prior to the Civil War, and Lochner, v. New York, a 1905 decision historians have
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Ted Cruz Ping! Dallas Morning News only hates Senator Ted Cruz on days that ends with a y...oh look..today is such a day!!!
FINALLY, IT’S ABOUT TIME.
I love it.
Lawless POTUS
Lawless House & Senate
Lawless SCOTUS
Ain’t we got fun!
“...has introduced measures to amend the Constitution to undo the gay marriage ruling and to establish retention elections for Supreme Court justices, who now serve for life.”
Well, at least there was a hearing and he got to say some stuff. Instead of a new amendment, we should pass an amendment that says something like The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people
Go Cruz!
Michael Lindenberger
Washington Correspondent for Business, The Dallas Morning News
In addition to my work for The News, I have been a long-time contract writer for TIME - Coverage of Gay Marriage for TIME Starting January 2008
"I cover a lot of ground, but the single biggest issue I've had to explore is the legal dynamics of what has become one of the biggest civil rights issues of our time. With sources deeply placed among the most prominent thinkers and activists on both sides of the issue my analytical, reporting-based coverage has stood out as a result."
Team members:Michael Lindenberger, Howard Chua-Eoan, Daniel Eisenberg
Oh look.
It’s Michael Moore’s doppelganger.
To bad the media will not give this as much volume as it gives trump.
" I was an experienced reporter on gay rights in places like Dallas, San Francisco, and Washington D.C., not Louisville, the city that raised me as a closeted youth. I had never participated in that city’s gay life. My identity as a gay man didn’t develop in a meaningful way until well into my twenties, after I had moved away."
"The only way I could truly understand my role in American society as a gay person was by reckoning with the place that had created, and in a sense, exiled me."
"Looking back, maybe it’s no surprise that I knew so little. There was so much that I didn’t know then. Across the United States, homosexuals—and, increasingly, heterosexuals, too—were dying in large numbers from AIDS, but it didn’t register with me, not in any kind of way that left a mark."
"The AIDS crisis changed the gay community in Louisville, like it probably did everywhere. Besides the obvious toll it took, it also pushed many people out of the closet, long before they were otherwise ready."
Michael Lindenberger
Same Game was worked successfully for years.
I’d love to see invite the Supremes to the hearing. No, better yet, subpoena them, showing them that the branches of government are separate and equal.
Ferret Face!
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