Ted Cruz Vows to Put Hard-Core Conservatives on the Supreme Court
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[QUOTE](Bloomberg) -- Ted Cruz believes Republicans have "an abysmal record" when it comes to picking Supreme Court justices, and it is something the Texas senator promises to rectify if he's elected president.
Cruz, who argued cases before the Supreme Court as the solicitor general of his state and has taught law school classes on the art of presenting cases to the high court, told Bloomberg in an exclusive interview in Iowa on Monday that his party has a knack for picking eventual heretics who side with liberals on divisive issues.
As examples, he cited Chief Justice John Roberts, an appointee of President George W. Bush, who rejected a challenge to President Barack Obama's health care law in 2012, and Justice Anthony Kennedy, a Ronald Reagan appointee, who voted in 2015 to make same-sex marriage a constitutional right.[/QUOTE]
Go suck a fat dick Cruz.
You mean that picking qualified people wouldn't be a priority as they would actually seek to implement the law constitutionally? Never!
Though lets not act like this Supreme Court partisanship is one-way - Obama himself voted against John Roberts when he was appointed by Bush despite him being an extremely qualified candidate.
What does he define as hardcore though? Is it possible to be more hardcore conservative than Clarence Thomas?
Anybody who is surprised by this is dumb, but just because they would be conservative does not mean that they wouldn't be qualified.
I've been told that this guy and Sanders were the top two candidates, is it correct?
[QUOTE=AhoyMate;49229746]I've been told that this guy and Sanders were the top two candidates, is it correct?[/QUOTE]
Not really. It's still sort of anybody's game right now, the republican frontrunner seems to change every month and on the democratic side it's a tossup between Clinton and Sanders.
[QUOTE=AhoyMate;49229746]I've been told that this guy and Sanders were the top two candidates, is it correct?[/QUOTE]
Republican:
1. Trump: Populist right
2. Carson: Populist right
3. Rubio: Establishment Republican, fairly right wing
4. Cruz: Tea Party Republican - very right wing, but in a different way to Trump and Carson
Democrat:
1. Clinton: Centrist Democrat
2. Sanders: Social Democrat who served as an Independent in the Senate, very left wing for an American politician
Well, it's what liberals generally do.
[QUOTE=FlashMarsh;49229775]Republican:
1. Trump: Populist right
2. Carson: Populist right
3. Rubio: Establishment Republican, fairly right wing
4. Cruz: Tea Party Republican - very right wing, but in a different way to Trump and Carson
Democrat:
1. Clinton: Centrist Democrat
2. Sanders: Social Democrat who served as an Independent in the Senate, very left wing for an American politician[/QUOTE]
Please tell me what very right wing means because apparently John Roberts isn't conservative enough for these people.
[QUOTE=Lambeth;49229825]Please tell me what very right wing means because apparently John Roberts isn't conservative enough for these people.[/QUOTE]
John Roberts isn't even that right wing... Unless you mean Thomas, who actually is. Also, if you're complaining about Roberts, you're being ridiculously partisan, because he's possibly the best qualified Supreme Court Justice in history, regardless of his conservatism.
[IMG]https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/c6/Graph_of_Martin-Quinn_Scores_of_Supreme_Court_Justices_1937-Now.png[/IMG]
[QUOTE=FlashMarsh;49229775]Republican:
1. Trump: Populist right
2. Carson: Populist right
3. Rubio: Establishment Republican, fairly right wing
4. Cruz: Tea Party Republican - very right wing, but in a different way to Trump and Carson
Democrat:
1. Clinton: Centrist Democrat
2. Sanders: Social Democrat who served as an Independent in the Senate, very left wing for an American politician[/QUOTE]
You forgot
Republican:
5. Christie: Fiscal conservative, social centrist
6. Bush: Nepotism right
7. Santorum: Frothy lube poop
I'm not complaining about John Roberts, I'm complaining about the constantly shifting metrics of what it means to be conservative.
Well, of course it shifts, because as groups like the Tea Party and others on the far-right gain power, they claim themselves to be the only true conservatives and start 'no-true-Scotsman'ing everyone, shifting the definition of conservative rightwards. The same can be said about what I would consider to be a far-left MP, Jeremy Corbyn, being elected as the leader of the main British centre-left party, shifting the meaning of 'left-wing' far to the left. Left and Right is about distance to others, and is not defined in absolute terms, so of course it shifts over time.
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