Cruz: Trump should nominate a Supreme Court justice next week
Source: The Hill
Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) said President Trump should nominate a Supreme Court justice to replace the late Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg on the high court next week.
"We have a responsibility to do our job," Cruz told Fox News's Sean Hannity on Friday evening. "We cannot let Election Day come and go and with a 4-4 court ... we risk a constitutional crisis. I believe that the president next week should nominate a successor to the court ... and I think that it is critical that the Senate takes up and confirms that successor."
Cruz added that there would be "enormous pressure from the media" and Democrats to delay filling the vacancies Ginsburg's death has created, but said "this nomination is why Donald Trump was elected and this confirmation is why the voters voted for a Republican majority in the Senate."
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Cruz, a graduate of Harvard Law School and one of Trump's staunchest allies on Capitol Hill, was on a short list of candidates Trump released last week as potential Supreme Court justices.
Read more: https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/517190-cruz-trump-should-nominate-a-supreme-court-justice-next-week
Typical Ted Cruz. A quintessential Republican.
vercetti2021
(10,156 posts)Enjoy being a senator for 4 more years because we are coming for your stupid ass
EarlG
(21,974 posts)""We cannot let Election Day come and go and with a 4-4 court." Why not? The last presidential election happened just fine with a 4-4 court. What do they think is going to happen this time around?
I guess they think that Donald Trump is going to take this election to the Supreme Court.
oldsoftie
(12,632 posts)Trying to fill now is the ultimate hypocrisy.
Voters may well make them pay by taking the WH AND the Senate from them
COLGATE4
(14,732 posts)boot licker but that would be unfair to inconsiderate pitiful little ass-kissing boot lickers everywhere.
ashredux
(2,609 posts)Progressive Jones
(6,011 posts)jmowreader
(50,567 posts)herding cats
(19,568 posts)Now he's a booty kisser of the first degree in line for something for him. He's a true GOP faithful.
herding cats
(19,568 posts)Vile, opportunistic grave stalking, piece of crap that he is.
Basically, he's just doing him.
dixiegrrrrl
(60,010 posts)But of the 2...Cruz and Cotton....he's pick Cotton, who is much more malleable than Cruz.
left-of-center2012
(34,195 posts)Except when Obama nominated Merrick Garland ?
sprinkleeninow
(20,268 posts)Frustratedlady
(16,254 posts)We need to make a list of graves to dance on. Just thinkin'.
I loved RBG. She doesn't deserve this kind of response to the announcement of her death.
Gore1FL
(21,158 posts)It will probably raise some $$ on act Blue.
They can go for the power play, but our culture values fairness. We may disagree on what is fair, but we value it. McConnell's move is unfair in the eyes of a lot of people.
Let's capitalize on the GOP's disregard for our collective values.
uncle ray
(3,157 posts)this needs to be a leading talking point in the coming days.
Hong Kong Cavalier
(4,573 posts)n/t
generalbetrayus
(508 posts)Me: Cruz should go blow a dead elephant.
King_Klonopin
(1,307 posts)"Why did Bill Barr take the job of A.G.? What's in it for him?"
He could not find a logical reason why Barr would come back to a political job
when he had been making lots of money in the private sector.
A few hours later, the answer becomes obvious:
Trump has promised Barr a seat on the SCOTUS. This would explain everything,
including the recent smoke screen interview given by Barr to change the subject
from "those disgusting people" Trump complained about.
If Trump gets elected, Barr gets a plumb job with an incredible amount of power.
They are shameless enough to try and ram this down our throats, but there is
no way Mitch McConnell can do this with any credibility after what he did to Garland.
I would hope that the confirmation process would make it impossible to fill the seat
before Nov 3rd.
groundloop
(11,527 posts)I'd never thought about Barr and the Supreme Court, but DAMN, that angle makes a ton of sense.
And Moscow Mitch is slimy enough to cram it down our throats within a week.
generalbetrayus
(508 posts)and "credibility" in the same sentence.
bucolic_frolic
(43,364 posts)What a piece of human scum.
mwb970
(11,367 posts)Everything Schumer tweets about this debate should be a word-for-word copy of a tweet McConnell sent out when the shoe was on the other foot.
DeminPennswoods
(15,290 posts)pile of bills sent over from the House first?
IronLionZion
(45,563 posts)So that Biden's win is so big we can avoid the supreme court having to rule on the election. And Dems should take the majority in the Senate so we can fix this.
Luciferous
(6,086 posts)they want to do their jobs is when they get something out of it. Fuck the lot of them.
Illumination
(2,458 posts)It reminds me of my mom discussing my dad's assests right before he passed away...It just shows what kind of person you REALLY are!...
WhoWoodaKnew
(847 posts)Firestorm49
(4,037 posts)VA_Jill
(10,016 posts)cuz you want to be it. FU.
w0nderer
(1,937 posts)from above....
Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas): It has been 80 years since a Supreme Court vacancy was nominated and confirmed in an election year. There is a long tradition that you dont do this in an election year. (source)
-re:above
https://www.factcheck.org/2016/02/cruz-rubio-twist-court-precedent/
as if that would matter
GOP the party of 'do as i say, not as i do'
The Wizard
(12,552 posts)would be very happy if Ted Cruz drank the Clorox.