[so_real]

My fear is that Cruz will take your advice, biff, and just let this ruminate until such time as the SC does settle it. (Which as Cboldt noted, without pressure will be "never".) In the meantime, his avoidance of the issue appears to Constitutionally-minded conservatives as a "dodge" of a highly originalist issue from someone who has sold himself to us as a highly originalist Constitutional scholar. It encourages doubt, and raises questions as to his honor and intentions. And that is why he is not growing in the polls. Cruz should be leading in Iowa and New Hampshire at this point, and he isn't. I believe this issue is hurting him. Selfishly and for the good of the nation, I really want him to change his approach to a more winning strategy.

[biff]

I am not a lawyer, obviously, but did he have to wait for somebody to file a case like the lawyer in Houston did last week? Otherwise what process would he do in order to get a decision out of the SC? And of course, nobody is going to be satisfied by any decision by a lower court.

A so called declarotory (sp) ruling as Trump has talked about for a few weeks now would not have any authority. A SC ruling is going to be the only final ruling that nobody could appeal and it would be the end of it, one way or the other.