Trump calls Roberts 'disgraceful' as chief justice, [Clarence] Thomas is his favorite justice

Star-Tribune ^ | Dec 12 2015 | BILL BARROW Associated Press

[jy8z]

Cruz initially voted for Roberts

Ted Cruz was not in the Senate at the time George Bush nominated John Roberts. How could he vote for him? The Texas senators who did vote for Roberts were John Cornyn and Kay Bailey Hutchinson.

[CatherineofAragon]

Well, I don’t hate Santorum. In fact, I think he’s a pretty decent guy.

[CatherineofAragon]

You're right; I was wrong in my recollection. I was posting so much last night I guess I wasn't thinking, and mindlessly answering WilliamIII's mistaken claim that Cruz voted for him. My fault for not catching it.

Cruz said that he made a mistake in *supporting* Roberts:

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I don't hold his mistake against him, since everyone except for Christ makes them. And I like that he didn't try to dodge the issue.

I tend to think Roberts was blackmailed, especially after seeing the pic of him in his younger years in which he looked decidedly, um...fruitish.

"As to your other question, what does Trump admitting a Mistake have to do with this?"

Simply illustrating the difference between Cruz and Trump...one is big enough to readily admit when he's wrong; the other is an egotist who can only flatter himself with declarations of how fantastic he is.

Shoot, not only is he adverse to admitting mistakes---he's still making them. He's voiced support for the Patriot Act, said we need to extend the Civil Rights Act to queers in the interest of "fairness", doubled down on support for ethanol subsidies, thinks leftwinger Bill Gates can close up the internet, etc.

[VideoDoctor]

Ted Cruz Flip Flop on Support of Chief Justice John Roberts

“When I began practicing, I worked hard to emulate his argument style,’’ Mr. Cruz writes in the memoir, which goes on sale in book stores Tuesday. “You do not get to be the best Supreme Court advocate of your generation, as John was, without having an exquisite understanding of what makes each of the sitting justices tick.”—WSJ, 6/30/2015

In Ted’s own words: “As an individual, John Roberts is undoubtedly a principled conservative, as is the president who appointed him…But, as a jurist, Judge Roberts’s approach will be that of his entire career: carefully, faithfully applying the Constitution and legal precedent.”—NRO, 7/20/05

In Ted’s own words: “In November of 2000, I had spent the past year and half as domestic-policy adviser on the Bush campaign, and was part of the team assembling the lawyers to help litigate Bush v. Gore. We needed the very best lawyers in the country, and I called John and asked him to help. Within hours, he was on a plane to Florida.”—NRO, 7/20/05

In Ted’s own words: John Roberts “is a mainstream judge, respected across the ideological spectrum.”—NRO, 7/20/05

“In internal email conversations exclusively obtained by BuzzFeed News from Cruz’s time as solicitor general, the Texan relayed to his staff in 2005 that Roberts was a role model for how to ‘carry out our craft.’”—Buzzfeed, 9/12/15

Now…

In 2015 “Cruz suggested Roberts should resign from the court.” —Buzzfeed, 9/12/15

“Cruz no longer wants to imitate Roberts. Ever since Roberts wrote an opinion upholding the Affordable Care Act, Cruz has been slamming the chief justice, and mused Saturday on imagining a Supreme Court without him.”—WP, 9/12/15

“Cruz stated if Jones and Luttig had been on the court instead of Souter and Roberts, then the marriage laws in every state would still be on the books and Obamacare would not been law.

Cruz’s claim, besides being counterfactual (Souter retired from the court in 2009, while Roberts dissented on the landmark same-sex marriage ruling this year), shows how the candidate has completely come full circle on Justice Roberts.” —Buzzfeed, 9/12/15

https://randpaul.com/ted-cruz-flip-flops-on-support-of-chief-justice-john-roberts

[jy8z]

Your own words were Cruz initially voted for Roberts. Excuse me for being old school and believing words have a specific meaning. Cruz never voted for Roberts. Supporting him means something totally different. A lot of people that supported him no longer do, including me.

[RedHeeler]

Is that a fact? Like a ball score? Or, like a news item bliff, from left field?