Cruz: Trump should nominate a Supreme Court justice next week

[TomCADem]

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

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Typical Ted Cruz. A quintessential Republican.

[vercetti2021]

1. Go fuck yourself Cruz

Enjoy being a senator for 4 more years because we are coming for your stupid ass

[EarlG]

2. They're really tipping their hand with this 4-4 court talking point

""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.

[ashredux]

5. Exactly

[oldsoftie]

18. Or they know he's going to LOSE & wouldnt be able to pick the replacement.

Trying to fill now is the ultimate hypocrisy.
Voters may well make them pay by taking the WH AND the Senate from them

[COLGATE4]

3. I would say that Cruz is an inconsiderate pitiful little ass-kissing

boot licker but that would be unfair to inconsiderate pitiful little ass-kissing boot lickers everywhere.

[ashredux]

4. Fuck you Ted....

[Progressive Jones]

7. Yep, Fuck You, Ted. Remember the Scalia vacancy? Fuck Off !!! nt

[jmowreader]

6. Uh-huh. And where was this asshole in 2016?

[herding cats]

9. Running for President and trashing Trump.

Now he's a booty kisser of the first degree in line for something for him. He's a true GOP faithful.

[herding cats]

8. He's just hoping for the nomination.

Vile, opportunistic grave stalking, piece of crap that he is.

Basically, he's just doing him.

[dixiegrrrrl]

31. Pretty sure Yertle has told trump who to pick.

But of the 2...Cruz and Cotton....he's pick Cotton, who is much more malleable than Cruz.

[left-of-center2012]

10. "We have a responsibility to do our job,"

Except when Obama nominated Merrick Garland ?

[sprinkleeninow]

11. ted crudz sez?

[Frustratedlady]

12. I figured he was jumping with joy since Trump had him on his list of SC nominees.

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]

13. It'll help Democratic GOTV efforts.

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]

14. a small minority of voters with a lot of land voted for a repub majority in the Senate.

this needs to be a leading talking point in the coming days.

[Hong Kong Cavalier]

15. Me: Ted Cruz should go jump in a wood chipper. Feet first.

n/t

[generalbetrayus]

16. Cruz: Trump should nominate a Supreme Court justice next week.

Me: Cruz should go blow a dead elephant.

[King_Klonopin]

17. On Friday morning, Joe Scarborough on MSNBC asked a rhetorical question:

"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]

19. With Moscow Mitch anything is possible

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]

28. I think this is the first time I've ever seen "Mitch McConnell"

and "credibility" in the same sentence.

[bucolic_frolic]

20. Classless Ted Cruz couldn't even wait 24 hours???

What a piece of human scum.

[mwb970]

21. This is the height of trump party hypocrisy.

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]

22. How about "doing your job" and taking up the

pile of bills sent over from the House first?

[IronLionZion]

23. I would hope this motivates people on the left to turnout to vote

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]

24. Do your job?! You haven't done anything for four fucking years!!! The only time

they want to do their jobs is when they get something out of it. Fuck the lot of them.

[Illumination]

25. WOW! Unbelievable that Republicans started fighting about this on the day of her death!...

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]

26. What do Republicans NOT lie about?

[Firestorm49]

27. "We have a responsibility to do our job". A partisan responsibility? THE BIDEN RULE !

[VA_Jill]

29. Yeah, sure, Rafaelito

cuz you want to be it. FU.

[w0nderer]

30. hmmmmm

https://www.motherjones.com/2020-elections/2020/09/a-long-list-of-gop-senators-who-promised-not-to-confirm-a-supreme-court-nominee-during-an-election-year/

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 don’t 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]

32. Normal people

would be very happy if Ted Cruz drank the Clorox.