Here at this presumed left wing blog, right-wing world news gets shoved down our throats on a daily basis, leaving us with the impression right wingers would turn out and Democrats wouldn’t on an issue which is at bottom one of civil rights. I don’t accept that those progressives who believe in change would just sit by and not vote in order to control their own destiny.
“Who in their right mind would design a system where every major public policy issue of the day is decided not by the people, not by the Constitution, not by elected representatives, but by nine elite lawyers in Washington, D.C.?”
If he is referring to Obamacare, Congress voted on it(last time I checked, these were elected representatives), in 2012 presidential elections, GOP ran on a platform of repeal and replace Obamacare and THE PEOPLE rejected that platform
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No, he doesn’t have that power as a Senator. Under the Constitution (Article I, Section 2, paragraph 5), the House of Representatives has the sole power of impeachment. Of course, in his role as shadow Speaker of the House he might be able to push enough Representatives to initiate impeachment proceedings as he did with the government shutdown that he engineered.
But impeachment proceedings require an impeachable offense, which the Constitution defines as “treason, bribery, or other high crimes and misdemeanors”.Cruz displays his ignorance when he says “the framers of the Constitution intended for Supreme Court justices to face impeachment if the legislature felt they were overreaching.” “Overreaching” is not a high crime, nor even a misdemeanor. It’s merely a matter of whose ox is being gored. I guess Ann Coulter is right and “immigrants” can’t really grasp American values.
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That’s why it is so disappointing to hear Chief Justice Roberts comments that the same sex marriage decision had nothing to do with the Constitution. It just had everything to do with the 14th Amendment as Justice Kennedy stated in his majority opinion.
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Roberts uses a different Constitution from the rest of us. He even uses a different Constitution from the one Scalia uses.
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So now he is renouncing his own alma mater? WTF is the matter with this stupid idiot?
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Right, so Cruz apparently misunderstands that we are not a direct democracy. We are a republic; we vote for representatives, and then they do the rulemaking.
“Who in their right mind would design a system where every major public
policy issue of the day is decided not by the people, not by the
Constitution, not by elected representatives, but by nine elite lawyers
in Washington, D.C.?” he asked.
(waives hand) Oohhhh! I KNOW! The Founding Fathers!
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Ding-Ding-Ding!
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Yes, under Ted Cruz’s plan, the entire Supreme Court could be appointed by one president. He’d like that if it were a Republican president. If it were a Democratic president, he wouldn’t.
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And yet I’ve seen far, far better advocacy from many graduates of second-tier law schools.
No he doesn’t. The House impeaches. The Senate tries the case after that.
Here, OTOH, you have hit the nail’s head and driven it home.
I’ve noticed how some on the Right wave the Constitution constantly but I would love to check their copy to see if the spine has been cracked by opening it.
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He’s a sociopathic weasel. I think it’s more than just pandering. Like Hitler, he wants to destroy democratic government from the inside. (Hitler used that route because he’d learned the lesson of his failed putsch. I have no idea where Cruz hit on his similar plan.)
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64% of Americans want Obamacare subsidies to continue:
60% of Americans support gay marriage.
The Supreme Court wasn’t going against the majority when it ruled in favor of Obamacare and gay marriage.
Ted Cruz knows that. That’s why the specifics of his plan are anti-majoritarian: Supreme Court Justices would need a majority of the overall vote, and ALSO a majority in a least half the states. Cruz wants to undermine democracy by giving voters in small states more power than voters in large states.
Voters in small states already have more power than voters in large states because of the US Senate and the electoral college. Ted Cruz’s proposal would make that situation worse.
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He was solicitor general of Texas. I’d say he practiced some:
Appointed to the office of Solicitor General of Texas by Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott, Cruz served in that position from 2003 to 2008. The office had been established in 1999 to handle appeals involving the state, but Abbott hired Cruz with the idea that Cruz would take a “leadership role in the United States in articulating a vision of strict construction.” As Solicitor General, Cruz argued before the Supreme Court nine times, winning five cases and losing four. [Wikipedia; emphasis mine]
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FIFY
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Even countersunk it and plastered over it. The technical term for what he describes is Führerprinzip.
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He is. Not a naturalized citizen, because of his mother, but an immigrant nonetheless. (At least according to Webster’s; OED’s definition is a bit more restrictive.)
Full Definition of IMMIGRANT : one that immigrates: as
a: a person who comes to a country to take up permanent residence
That also too.
Music to Cruz’ ears.