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Donald Trump Calls Chief Justice John Roberts a 'Nightmare for Conservatives'
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Posted on 01/17/2016 11:50:22 AM PST by springwater13

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To: phothus

With all due respect, that’s was like trying to paper over the San Andreas Fault.

The guy didn’t even come close to making a Constitutional ruling in that case. It wasn’t even in the same universe.

If Trump had appointed this guy, you would have never forgotten it.


41 posted on 01/17/2016 1:21:33 PM PST by DoughtyOne (Every home needs a crewznadian that has been domestically trained.)
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To: ncpatriot
The nomination of Roberts was the biggest mistake (if it was a mistake) of president Bush. imo

And his Daddy gave us Souter.

42 posted on 01/17/2016 1:24:01 PM PST by dfwgator
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To: DoughtyOne

Off subject a bit....

Ted Cruz Failed To Disclose Ties To Caribbean Holding Company

An old college friendship led to financial entanglement with a Jamaican private equity firm and a British Virgin Islands holding company.

Neither was disclosed during his 2012 campaign.

http://swampland.time.com/2013/10/18/ted-cruz-failed-to-disclose-ties-to-jamaican-holding-company/


43 posted on 01/17/2016 1:27:53 PM PST by AuntB (Illegal immigration is simply more "share the wealth" socialism and a CRIME not a race!)
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To: grania

“Has Cruz yet spoken out about what a disaster Justice Roberts is?”

Oh, yes recently. The problem is we would have never heard of John Roberts if Cruz hadn’t recruited him for Bush..TWICE. Ironic isn’t it...Cruz filibusters over Obamacare and HE is the reason we got stuck with it!

Cruz, now running a fiercely conservative campaign for president, seemed to have a much different take on Roberts on Thursday when the Supreme Court issued its second major ruling protecting the Affordable Care Act, also known as Obamacare....
http://www.businessinsider.com/ted-cruz-is-bashing-john-roberts-after-years-of-praising-him-2015-6


44 posted on 01/17/2016 1:30:59 PM PST by AuntB (Illegal immigration is simply more "share the wealth" socialism and a CRIME not a race!)
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To: springwater13

A Nightmare for the United States is more like it.


45 posted on 01/17/2016 1:36:31 PM PST by Savage Beast (THE TRUMP COUNTER-REVOLUTION: Yamamoto should see the sleeping giant Trump has awakened!)
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To: springwater13

Hmm, whatever happened to Santorum?


46 posted on 01/17/2016 1:37:00 PM PST by Crucial (At the heart all leftists s the fear that the truth is bigger than themselves.)
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To: AuntB

But Ted has one of the sharpest legal minds in the nation.


47 posted on 01/17/2016 1:38:51 PM PST by DoughtyOne (Every home needs a crewznadian that has been domestically trained.)
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To: DoughtyOne

Out of every Republican Senator that was for Roberts, you pick the guy that those in power hate the most? Like Cruz would give his opinion, and voila’ everyone falls in line. This falls on GW, the man that actually said...”THE CONSTITUTION IS JUST A PIECE OF PAPER”, signed the Campaign Finance Reform even though he said it would be overturned and doubled the national debt? The man in charge is responsible for all that happened under his “leadership”, not a young Senator from Texas in the beginning of his term.


48 posted on 01/17/2016 1:39:51 PM PST by Glad2bnuts (Go Cruz GO, scare the RINO's to death)
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To: Glad2bnuts

Spin it anyway you like.

1. Ted Cruz brought John Roberts on board in the Bush administration
2. He championed him as a sound Constitutional man
3. He championed him for the Chief Justice
4. Today we have Obamacare that was single-handed approved by John Roberts (unconstitutionally)

Those other people aren’t running for office

Ted is

This is a real example of his inability to protect the nation with regard to justice appointments


50 posted on 01/17/2016 1:51:38 PM PST by DoughtyOne (Every home needs a crewznadian that has been domestically trained.)
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To: Cboldt

“That’s going to leave a mark. Now Cruz is juggling three balls.”

Maybe a fourth, misreporting loan/campaign donations.

Maybe a fifth; his Goldman Sachs - investment banker CFR wife’s career


51 posted on 01/17/2016 2:00:43 PM PST by truth_seeker
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To: springwater13

Was Trump talking about conservatives as, “them” or “us”...do you see the difference? I’d like to know the context, because if he meant “them”, well, then he is yet to get it.

I’ll still vote for him in the general, don’t get me wrong...however, still I’m a Cruz guy.


52 posted on 01/17/2016 2:03:56 PM PST by CincyRichieRich (Freedom is costly; but Marxism takes all.)
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To: springwater13

It’s hard not to like a guy who keeps saying exactly what so many people are already thinking!


53 posted on 01/17/2016 2:26:12 PM PST by Spok ("What're you going to believe-me or your own eyes?" -Marx (Groucho))
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To: springwater13; All
Noting that I will gladly vote for Trump if nominated, please consider the following.

I regard Trump as a constitutionally low-information candidate who is clueless about 10th Amendment-protected state powers (corrections welcome). And while I agree with Trump that Obamacare has to go, regarding his disdain for Justice Roberts on passing Obamacare, I wonder on what basis Trump thinks that Roberts, and other state sovereignty-ignoring justices, wrongly decided that Obamacare is constitutional.

If elected, note that Trump needs to successfully lead Congress to propose a healthcare amendment to the Constitution to the states before buiding another healhcare program from scratch which he has said he will do. After all, maybe the states think that they can do a better job with their own healthcare programs and reject a national healthcare program.

As mentioned in related threads, below is laundry list of excerpts from Supreme Court case opinions, wrongly ignored by the Roberts Court imo, that reasonably show that previous generations of state sovereignty-respecting justices had clarified that the states have never delegated to the feds, expressly via the Constitution, the specfic power to regulate, tax, spend and insure for INTRAstate healthcare purposes.


54 posted on 01/17/2016 2:26:50 PM PST by Amendment10
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To: Glad2bnuts

he isnt corrupt, he’s just spineless. they got to him.


55 posted on 01/17/2016 2:41:41 PM PST by JohnBrowdie (http://forum.stink-eye.net)
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To: springwater13
Another non-issue and more


June 30, 2015 - Ted Cruz on John Roberts: 'He violated his oath,' 'he changed the law'
56 posted on 01/17/2016 2:44:08 PM PST by Lucky9teen (God's blessing has been on America from the very beginning, and I believe God isn't done yet. TCruz)
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To: Kickass Conservative
Thanks for your reply.

Trump making a complimentary passing remark about his Sister

He said she'd make phenomenal SC justice. That's the topic here.

As for her suitability, read the link on her ruling on partial birth abortion. Also see Trump's past support for abortion including partial birth.

Regarding whom Trump admires or compliments now, I'm going to assume you're aware of whom he admired, complimented and supported in the past.

57 posted on 01/17/2016 3:41:02 PM PST by D-fendr (Deus non alligatur sacramentis sed nos alligamur.)
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To: springwater13
Sadly many of us have had the wool pulled over our eyes by duplicitous, conniving liars.

Many thought Roberts was a strong Conservative.

58 posted on 01/17/2016 3:53:19 PM PST by Eagles6 ( Valley Forge Redux. If not now, when? If not here, where? If not us then who?)
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To: springwater13

well. he’s dead right about the traitor roberts.

unquestionably, roberts (bush appointee) is the man who destroyed the last vestige of SC constitutional relevancy with one horrific, freakshow vote. for me, it’s now a question of what they had on him, what he was paid, or how a pure leftist got appointed by a supposedly conservative bush. and i can still hear pelosi saying he was their guy; that he was going to surprise everyone.

what a disaster he’s been.


59 posted on 01/17/2016 3:57:12 PM PST by dadfly
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To: Georgia Girl 2

Cruz promoted another candidate (can’t remember the name right now), but once GWB selected Roberts, Cruz got on board. Cruz wasn’t the boss, he was the employee. GW Bush was the boss.


60 posted on 01/17/2016 4:12:27 PM PST by John Valentine (Deep in the Heart of Texas)
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