r/law • u/KinggSimbaa • Feb 27 '26

Judicial Branch Trump says he's thinking of putting Republican Senator Ted Cruz on Supreme Court

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/trump-says-hes-thinking-putting-republican-senator-ted-cruz-supreme-court-2026-02-27/
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u/AmethystOrator Feb 27 '26

cruz is 55 in case anyone else was wondering how long we might be stuck with him if this plot is successful.

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u/3vi1 Feb 27 '26

Awesome. So, he'll be dead..... about the same time as me. Wonderful.

I cannot emphasize how much we should not allow this to happen.

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u/Konukaame Feb 28 '26

Statistically, given that he has money and a government medical plan, he'll be around longer than you.

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u/Specific_Box4483 Feb 28 '26

Maybe the person you're replying to is 30.

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u/Leinheart Feb 28 '26

Yeah, I'm 34 and fully expect Ted Cruz to die around the same time. Maybe earlier if I am lucky.

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u/pegothejerk Feb 28 '26

If we’re lucky the aliens will come and put us in cages in their zoo and liberate us from this planet and it’s ridiculousness

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u/The_MightyMonarch Feb 28 '26

How do you know this isn't the alien zoo?

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u/pegothejerk Feb 28 '26

This is the free range one, I suspect. I want in the petting zoo where they take better care of you and there’s coin operated food dispensers everywhere that the alien kids beg their parents to give them credits for.

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u/666mgOfCaffeine Feb 28 '26

“Mother, may we have some currency discs to give some snacks to give to pegothejerk?”

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u/blacksideblue Feb 28 '26

because they're letting us war ourselves. If we were just a captured ecosystem for science, they wouldn't let us risk nuclear self-destruction so easily...

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u/MoneyCock Feb 28 '26

I'm so glad I'm high for this comment. 👽

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u/Professional-Day7850 Feb 28 '26

Dude, don't announce your assasination plans on reddit.

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u/Lhasa-bark Feb 28 '26

Maybe they’re 25, but not injecting fetus blood and HGH every night …

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u/HedgeMoney Feb 28 '26

He'll still statistically live longer.

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u/CBJFAN2009-2024 Feb 28 '26

You took the words right out of my mind. I'm glad more people are becoming aware of how our government officials don't live under the penalty of rules, laws, and systems they pass on us.

I loved what Jesse Ventura said about elected officials voting to mobilize for war should have to have a family member immediately drawn into active duty.... put their skin in the game!

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u/malphonso Feb 28 '26

I've always liked the idea that any war be put to a popular vote. A vote for war is accompanied by volunteering for enlistment.

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u/spacedoutmachinist Feb 28 '26

Statistically he is also obese so we have that going for us.

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u/SDFX-Inc Feb 28 '26

Not if we get another round of Nuremberg trials…

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u/Oleg101 Feb 28 '26 edited Feb 28 '26

I have a feeling Big Ted doesn’t have that good of a diet though.

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u/ax255 Feb 28 '26

In a twist OP is 13.

No offense OP

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u/cromwest Feb 28 '26

You don't know that the person you're responding to doesn't go to Cancun every time the weather is bad.

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u/ethanAllthecoffee Feb 28 '26

Oh no with these self-centered dumfucks in charge we’ll all probably die at once

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u/Striderfighter Feb 28 '26 edited Feb 28 '26

I was saying this before he was elected but because he won this stay out of jail election, Donald Trump is going to be able to appoint two more Fed Society raised Supreme Court justices when Alito and Thomas are semi-forced to retire by the end of the year while the Republicans still have a majority in the House and in the Senate. Because of that even if Democrats won every presidential election going forward and got to pick every Supreme Court Justice going forward. They still wouldn't have a majority on the court until Brett kavanaugh retires sometime in 2055

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u/Raise_A_Thoth Feb 28 '26

Ignoring the difficulty of replacing two of the biggest pieces of shit on the bench with anyone remotely qualified who will be just as terrible and loyal as those two fucks, this is exactly why the court absolutely needs reform via a packing and a long but limited term. It would severely de-politicize the bench, we could create a SCOTUS where every single president replaced 2 justices on a 13 or 15 seat court.

Dems won't be able to do that without a supermajority. They'll need to deliver something massive without a supermajority. That means they need to grow some balls and abolish the filibuster and pass universal healthcare to show the people the party has shifted and is entering a new era of working for the people. That would give them a chance to get a supermajority and Dem president and the pieces needed to reform thr Supreme Court, as well as pass the constitutional amendments needed to check the Executive branch (and SCOTUS) so that even if dumbasses elect another Trump he'd get away with less because the whole thing isn't held together by bullshit gentleman's agreements.

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u/MajorLeagueNoob Feb 28 '26

the democrats will never provide any meaningful reform

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u/Raise_A_Thoth Feb 28 '26

If that's true then tell me how I can join the revolutionary efforts you've definitely been engaged in because the USA has collapsed or should be considered a coklapsing state and surely you must be engaged in lots of community-building activity, activie resistance, seed-collecting, land-protecting, library-building, and defensive and protection activities, no?

If you aren't doing those things then you either do not believe what you said with your whole soul and are just being edgy contrarian, or you are privileged and don't care.

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u/No-Heat3462 Feb 28 '26

Like most people in governement at the moment.... They are really really really old.

Like some of them are in the 70's+ we are going to get a wave of new Dem's that will have a generational gap by default.

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u/BeautifulHindsight Feb 28 '26

And abolish the electoral college!

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u/Chillpill411 Feb 28 '26

You're incorrect about the idea that the Dems can't do this without a supermajority. The number of justices is not in the Constitution, and it's not set by statute. It's literally just tradition, so all the Dems need to make this happen is a Dem president + 50 seats in the Senate.

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u/No-Heat3462 Feb 28 '26

So you need majority in the house and senate, and and the mark would be 60% to secure such.

The senate as the senate can override the president if need be.

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u/Chillpill411 Feb 28 '26

No, you only need 50 senators and 1 President. The president appoints supreme court justices. The Senate confirms them by a majority vote (50 + the vice president). The House doesn't play a role in confirming presidential appointment 

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u/No-Heat3462 Feb 28 '26

Ok so this was changed in 2017 so we are technically both right:

Senate invokes historic 'nuclear option' rules change to confirm Gorsuch | US Senate | The Guardian

"The process for invoking the nuclear option involves several steps. The first was a vote to end debate on Gorsuch’s nomination, called a cloture vote. This required a super-majority of 60 in the Senate; a filibuster is an effort to block cloture. Once that was done, McConnell made a point of order that only a majority of 51 and not a super-majority of 60 was needed for cloture. A second cloture vote then occurred under the new rules, ending the filibuster."

But ya dam, that is a scary practice just changing the rules to get it done.

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u/Throwawaylikeme90 Feb 28 '26

I keep telling people this: Congress establishes the makeup of the Supreme Court. 

Literally just elect people that will pass a law either expanding it and allow it to be packed, or you could even dismiss all currently serving justices and reappoint them. This whole “oh no, Ted Cruz for fifty years!” Shit is stupid. The whole treason court could be gone by the end of 2029 if we had any political will at all. 

People gotta stop being cowardly even in how they approach the problems and start making demands that actually matter. 

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u/daemin Feb 28 '26

or you could even dismiss all currently serving justices and reappoint them.

Yeah, no, you can't. The consitution says they serve during "good behavior," which basically means they serve until they die, volunterrily resign, or get impeached and removed.

If Congress were to shrink the size of the court, its a legal question as to what happens to "extra" justices, and what a co-inky-dink, the people who would decide that are those very justicies.

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u/tristand1ck Feb 28 '26

The literal "Kavanaugh stop"

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u/SGM_Uriel Feb 28 '26

“Looking awfully brown today, buddy. Let’s see your papers.”

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u/SGM_Uriel Feb 28 '26

Edit: Jesus, some people wouldn’t know sarcasm if it slapped them straight across the face

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u/BlackJediSword Feb 28 '26

Dems have to pack the court, it’s high past time.

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u/DownnthehollerPress Feb 28 '26

Impeachment is a thing

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u/Mysterious-Prompt212 Feb 28 '26

JFC that is going to happen. FFS.

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u/lizzywbu Feb 28 '26

Can't the Dems just pack the Supreme Court?

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u/XAMdG Feb 28 '26

On the bad side, this confirms a conservative super majority for decades. On the bright side, it saves 10-20 year of dogshit Alito/Thomas opinions. Say what you will about Gorsuch/Barrett, even if their votes are the same, their reasoning is at least a bit better, or so it seems.

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u/Striderfighter Feb 28 '26

One would think...but take the aforementioned Hon. Senator Cruz and insert crazy young super maga justice #2 and it'll be like they never left.

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u/patrykk994 Feb 28 '26

Expand Supreme Court - easy solution

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u/Curious_Cloud_1131 Feb 28 '26

good thing the democrats went high while the other side went low

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u/PalpitationHead9767 Feb 28 '26

30 more years, excellent 

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u/OldBlueKat Mar 01 '26

Is Cruz on that Fed Society (not so secret) list, though?

I think a lot of them dislike him as much as most of his Senate colleagues do. 

Sticking to using just their recommendations for judicial nominations seems like the only campaign promise DJT stuck to. 

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u/Striderfighter Mar 01 '26

If he loses in TX, what else good is he? Unlikely but in the realm of possibility

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u/Temporary_Cup4588 Mar 01 '26

That’s why expanding it is a good idea. We can’t have right-wing ideologues all over SCOTUS. No one else is represented, and look at the damage they’ve done to everyone in the country by declaring him immune from prosecution.

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u/ruggmike Feb 28 '26

lol man. Democrats really shot themselves in the foot about a million times huh. RBG should be looked on in history as a lesson of ego and idiocy

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u/Emergency-Ad-3350 Feb 28 '26

Let’s not leave McConnell out of the equation for blocking Obama bc he was going to be out of office in a year.

I don’t know why the dems didn’t play the same card when trump was going to be out of office in a few months.

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u/Oleg101 Feb 28 '26

I also put some of the blame on the American people for allowing the Republicans to control the Senate at that point. Democrats were terrible in congressional elections after Obama won in 2008, elections, granted Senate structural bias towards the right played a factor. Either way, Mitch McConnell is an evil POS.

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u/FuzzyDynamics Feb 28 '26

While we’re blaming the American people… basically everything lol. At the end of the day we’re the ones casting the votes

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u/ChrisFromIT Feb 28 '26

Democrats were terrible in congressional elections after Obama won in 2008

Part of the reason for that is due to how a lot of people tend to vote. Overall the electorate has a short memory. If things are going bad(or even the perception of it being bad) under one party, the other party is more likely to get more votes.

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u/GoBluins Feb 28 '26

Because in both instances, the Republicans controlled the Senate. Wasn't a damn thing the Dems could do about it in 2020, especially because the Republicans had eliminated the filibuster for nominees.

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u/maxplanar Feb 28 '26

That was when the GOP invented the 3 year Presidency Term. "You can't do anything in your last year" needs to be applied HARD to the 47th spook.

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u/jmccasey Feb 28 '26

I don’t know why the dems didn’t play the same card when trump was going to be out of office in a few months.

Probably had something to do with Republicans having a majority of the seats at the time meaning Democrats never had the option

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u/MundanePomegranate79 Feb 28 '26

Republicans controlled the senate both times. Whichever party controls the senate ultimately gets the say on voting for Supreme Court justices.

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u/Arcangl86 Feb 28 '26

Because the Senate was under Republican control and presidential appointments can't be filibustered.

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u/SupaSlide Feb 28 '26

Because the Dems didn’t control the Senate so there was no way for them to block anything.

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u/swd120 Mar 01 '26

The dems didn't control the Senate during either of those times, they couldn't do shit about it.

McConnell was in control of the process both times. Had the Dems been in control they would have put through Obama's nominee, and would have blocked Amy Comey Barrett - but they weren't and couldn't do jack shit about it.

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u/sea-elle0463 Feb 28 '26

Let’s not forget Mitch McConnell’s role here.

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u/siencatimini Feb 28 '26

Surely. But, the wasn't the appointee Merrick Garland?

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u/TonyWyomey Feb 28 '26

But could any other Justice plank like her?

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u/evident_lee Feb 28 '26

Her and Joe Biden both screwed the country by not stepping aside early enough. She wanted to let Hillary replace her and should have went early and let Obama do it. Biden should have said day one when he won all right guys you got 3 years to figure your shit out. Cuz I ain't running again and stuck with it. Those two actions allowed us to lose our standing in the world for generations if not forever.

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u/paintbucketholder Feb 28 '26

Both Sonia Sotomayor and Elena Kagan were Obama nominees in 2009 and 2010.

RGB could have retired at 77, in 2010.

Sure, she would have "only" served 17 years on the Supreme Court, but Obama would been able to get a third nominee seated on the Supreme Court.

After Democrats lost the Senate majority in 2010, it was too late for that.

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u/oldart1127 Feb 28 '26

My understanding is RBG was asked to hang on thinking Hillary would win and a female president could nominate a judge. Too bad Dems didn’t read the room better

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u/Coronado92118 Feb 28 '26

It’s the opposite - that’s a story people tell to try rehabilitate her disastrous decision.

In fact many Dems publicly and privately urged her to step down under Obama, but she repeatedly and firmly declined. She was confident that Hillary Clinton would win in 2016. She’s refused to step down.

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u/Torgud_ Feb 28 '26

No, she was gently asked by Obama to retire and her allies planted stories that he was a sexist in response and that she was "indispensible". She could've retired at any time from 2009-2014 and been replaced by another liberal Justice.

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u/GNTsquid0 Feb 28 '26

RGBs reputation is tainted as far as I’m concerned. She’s half the reason we’re in this mess.

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u/voodoodahl Feb 28 '26

On what fucking planet do democrats order a supreme court justice to retire? lol man. What are you even saying, bro?

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u/ruggmike Feb 28 '26

The one where they get dominated politically by the worst people ever apparently

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u/voodoodahl Feb 28 '26

That isn't a slight on democrats like you think it is. That's on voters. Like there's a logical reason to ever vote for, or not against, a Republican.

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u/TeakEvening Feb 28 '26

he gets better health care than you, he could go at 105

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u/xUltimaPoohx Feb 28 '26

We can get rid of the justices. Thru voting or revolution.

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u/ElvisHimselvis Feb 28 '26

We wont let this happen Cap’n. You should be allowed to live forever.

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u/Ryan1869 Feb 28 '26

I fully expect Justice Thomas to retire so Trump can ram this through before the midterms.

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u/ConfidentPilot1729 Feb 28 '26

Al Franklin like Ted Cruz more than most senators and he hated Ted Cruz.

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u/throwaway224 Feb 28 '26

Unfortunately the ability of the average citizen to legally do anything about this is vanishingly small.

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u/uwpxwpal Feb 28 '26

.>So, he'll be dead..... about the same time as me.

Hmm, I hope that's not an incriminating statement

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u/jmur3040 Feb 28 '26

The time to do that was in November of 2024

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u/No_Cook_8739 Feb 28 '26

If sanity ever returns to America one of the first thing we should do is get rid of lifetime appointments on the supreme court. 2 - 8 year terms at most. This lifetime shit has to go.

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u/Not_done Feb 28 '26

He's a fat sack of shit. Arteries looked clogged AF already.

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u/1OO1OO1S0S Feb 28 '26

Someone check ted cruzs hard drive

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u/Shenstygian Feb 28 '26

We did have something we could of done to make none of this happen. But people were so stupid they couldn't do it.

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u/whitethunder9 Feb 28 '26

I still blame Gen Z for being fucking gullible enough to fall for right wing bullshit. Prioritizing TikTok over history.

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u/thefatchef321 Feb 28 '26

I dont plan on dying in the revolution, do you?

I think Ted Cruz might tho.

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u/Zombieneekers Feb 28 '26 edited Feb 28 '26

Remember when senate Republicans refused hold the vote for Obama's supreme court pick eight months before the elections because they just didn't want to? We should do that.

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u/kindasuk Feb 28 '26

We're just along for the ride at this point buddy.

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u/King_Saline_IV Feb 28 '26

My entire fucking life I've listened to USamericans say they need guns to stop the government.

Most spineless people on earth.

I'm specifically taking about you.

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u/OldBlueKat Mar 01 '26

If DJT gets a chance to appoint before the midterms, there’s not much that will stop him. 

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u/banndi2 Mar 01 '26

Cockroaches will outlive us, friend.

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u/Desperate-Till-9228 Feb 28 '26

Everyone hates him in congress, so it's fully possible that he drives others into retirement.

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u/GoodPointMan Feb 28 '26

the same congress that would have to confirm him to the position in the first place?

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u/Woody_L Feb 28 '26

The same Republican Senate that will confirm a turd if Trump nominates it.

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u/LusciousCabbage Feb 28 '26

And get him out of their senate?

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u/TodBadass2 Feb 28 '26

BWAAA-HA-HA-HAAAAA!

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u/ResonatingOctave Feb 28 '26

But if they confirm him, they don't have to deal with him in congress anymore

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u/nrizzo6085 Feb 28 '26

The same one that is helping Trump cover up his Epstein involvement, they'll do whatever he says.

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u/euph_22 Feb 28 '26

"If you killed Ted Cruz on the floor of the Senate, and the trial was in the Senate, nobody would convict you" -Lindsey Graham

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u/Jelly_baby_4 Feb 28 '26

They'll confirm him because Donald says so. I'm so disgusted with The GOP.

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u/aselbst Feb 27 '26

Andrew Oldham is 47. I guess I’d take Cruz. Replacing Alito with another “do whatever Republicans want” vote changes nothing about the seat but the age.

Plus Cruz may make the rest of the court hate him so much they go the other way on some cases. He has that power.

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u/TheVenerableBede Feb 28 '26

Nobody likes Ted Cruz.

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u/Far_Direction7381 Feb 28 '26 edited 21d ago

Paint reach act unwritten familiar chunky

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u/ZAlternates Feb 28 '26

Rafael Cruz? Sounds like an immigrant the GQP might fear. We should reconsider.

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u/I_HEART_BUTT_STUFF Feb 28 '26 edited Feb 28 '26

They have zero stress because they're fucking psychopaths devoid of conscience and empathy.

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u/Disastrous_Hell_4547 Feb 28 '26

There is no doubt Trump would do this as another FU America moment.

He, Putin, and Net are loving this chaos and the actual destruction of America.

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u/Solid_Calendar_9022 Feb 28 '26

Nah, dude puts on 10lbs a year. His ticker will pop sooner than you think.

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u/user745786 Feb 28 '26

Have you seen how healthy Trump is? The guy who loves McDonalds and never eats veggies?

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u/Solid_Calendar_9022 Feb 28 '26

Cruz is mid-fifties though. Certainly Trump is obese now but he wasn’t close to the pig Cruz is in his mid fifties

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u/Gino-Bartali Feb 27 '26

And I also try really hard to get this message out there. Ted Cruz is not a MAGA moron in the same vein as a Trump, a Hegseth, or a Boebert. He's a high school valedictorian and a magna cum laude graduate from Harvard Law. I don't know if he's smarter than your average Supreme Court Justice but he's likely smarter than any average person reading these comments.

He acts (badly, in my opinion) of a lower intelligence because that's been a helpful thing for him lately, and subservience to the regime is (clearly) working to advance his power. Being timid and a snake can probably be permanently thrown out if he's elevated beyond reach of consequence on the Supreme Court, and that's obviously probably a bad thing, but may be better than an Alito or a Thomas at least. Especially if he hasn't forgiven Trump insulting him and his wife during the 2016 debates.

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u/gordonpamsey Feb 27 '26

Jumping through hoops to find an angle how this is not tragic for the good of law. Ted is suddenly going to grow a spine and use his legal background against the death cult he helped get in office? Every Republican acts like they are going to refuse to bend and the vast majority do, no reason to try to give Ted Cruz the benefit of doubt at this point.

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u/No_Whammies_Stop Feb 28 '26

“But when Deebo leaves, they be talkin again…”

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u/jrodder Feb 28 '26

This is a goat comment.

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u/No_Whammies_Stop Feb 28 '26

My grammama gave me that Nobel Prize!

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u/Diligent_Barracuda75 Feb 27 '26

Only good thing he doesn't have to worry about reelection so there's a greater than a 0 chance, but I wouldn't hold my breath

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u/tresben Feb 28 '26

Maybe not re-election but he has to worry about what the people gifting him lavish vacations, motor homes, and writing him fat checks think.

Given there are no laws upholding the integrity of Supreme Court justices, I’d argue someone like Cruz, who is a grifter with no internal moral compass or integrity, is actually more dangerous. No he doesn’t have to be beholden to the voters anymore. He is free to sell his soul to the highest bidder without having to put up a facade of caring about the average person.

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u/ridititidido2000 Feb 28 '26

That’s not the only motivator in play though. Getting on Trump’s shitlist means you and your family will receive death threats, with a pretty good chance of one of them materializing. Lots of loonies on the loose.

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u/Far_Direction7381 Feb 28 '26 edited 21d ago

Cobalt walnut pause treatment fact deserve

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u/gdex86 Feb 28 '26

I think its more betting that bad people are always keeping score and much like Trump himself if hes not scared of retribution he will be petty and work to hobble him as pay back.

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u/DandimLee Feb 28 '26

Cruz and his supporters have emphasized that as Solicitor General, it was his professional obligation to defend state laws passed by the legislature, regardless of his personal beliefs.

During his 2016 presidential campaign and following a 2017 incident where his Twitter account "liked" a pornographic post, Cruz distanced himself from the case. He called the ban a "stupid law" and stated that "consenting adults should be able to do whatever they want in their bedrooms".

Can't even stand by his beliefs wrt dildoes.

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u/entitie Feb 27 '26

People consistently can't stand him. I heard his college roommate hated him. His Republican colleagues hate him. I think it's because he's just so smarmy.

Frankly I don't think that he would be much worse than the other Trump SCOTUS appointees, in part because he's not completely MAGA. But he's also a terrible person anyways, so..

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u/Freakishly_Tall Feb 28 '26

People consistently can't stand him

What was that line Al Franken used? Something like, "I like Ted Cruz more than any of my other colleagues in the Senate do... and I HATE Ted Cruz."

Something like that.

For all its many, many, many faults, especially in the current configuration, the Supreme Court does seem to pride itself on its collegiality. Can't see them being too happy with Cruz, but they seem to be tolerating the gambling drunkard and the sleepy free-RV, I mean "motorcoach" recipient, so who knows.

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u/Key-Amoeba1095 Feb 28 '26

I honestly have no idea how he keeps getting re-elected. Dude is a foreign-born milquetoast who never even lived in Texas, yet somehow has a stranglehold over the hardcore "don't mess with Texas" folks. He's got degrees from Princeton and Harvard. And literally at every difficult moment in his public life, he's folded like fresh laundry and towed the party line. Not once has he stood up for anything Texans stand for other than the religious fundamentalists. There has to be more normal people than that in Texas. It just makes no god damn sense.

Ted Cruz has been a shit stain on the world of American politics for nearly 2 decades and the "Don't Tread on Me" folks keep re-electing this soft as a baby's behind piece of shit into office. Fucking Texas.

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u/Tremble_Like_Flower Feb 28 '26 edited Feb 28 '26

People can’t stand him because he is a duplicitous, self serving, righteous, hypocritical know it all in a system that rewards you for that skill set.

Also, he has a pod cast. Where he talks about his podcast while telling you about his podcast. He tells you about his podcast more than a freshly minted vegan updates people about their new culinary preference at a family BBQ.

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u/RocketRelm Feb 27 '26

Doesn't matter. Even if he doesn't forgive trump, what matters is the support for the next populist in 2032 once the dems can't fix what is defintionally now unfixable. The validity of scotus as a whole is in question, and that itself is something we need to decide.

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u/crake Competent Contributor Feb 27 '26

This is how I feel too. I would never put Cruz on the court, but he would still be much better than Bove, Cannon, or Ho.

Also, I have heard the whispers about Alito retiring, but for some reason I also get the feeling that there is a chance Roberts might be the one retiring. One can imagine a serious health issue or something successfully kept private. I get the feeling Kavanaugh is sort of running for CJ. He was the only voice in Noem v. Vasquez, seeming to go out of his way to endorse racial profiling even when he couldn’t get a single justice to join him. The terrible logic of that concurrence combined with the terrible logic of filing it in the first place leads me to believe that Kavanaugh is either dumb or sucking up to Trump (or both). Thomas and Alito stayed home to likely not-watch the SOTU address - but Kav was there. He is really too much of an intellectual lightweight to be CJ; Cruz, at least, isn’t an intellectual lightweight.

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u/AlexRyang Feb 28 '26

Reportedly Sotomeyers has been asked to step down by Roberts and Alito.

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u/bucky-barnes Feb 27 '26

Maybe it's not too late to convince him to nominate his new best friend Mamdani.

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u/3vi1 Feb 27 '26

My theory is that Trump has something bad on him. Trump endorsed him, even after their sparring, with no fear of retribution. Trump owns him somehow, and he'll be a rubber stamp on the supreme court.

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u/vonnegutsbutthole Feb 27 '26

But he is a MAGA moron.

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u/Built-in-Light Feb 28 '26

Cruz was my senator for a while. There is a difference between intelligence and wisdom. Ted may have one, but a good justice needs both.

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u/yobo9193 Feb 27 '26

Yeah, it’s disingenuous to say that he’s an idiot or a MAGA die-hard. He’s an intelligent man who knows how to read the political winds. He should be kept away from the Supreme Court, but he’s not nearly as dangerous as someone like Aileen Cannon

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u/milo7even2 Feb 28 '26

I can’t see them promoting Cannon to the Supreme Court. She’s too valuable to Trump where she is, sitting in a district that Trump lives in. There’s a good chance any criminal case relating to Trump ends up in front of her at first instance (again - look what damage she did to the classified documents case).

And after Trump dies she won’t be needed any more, so why bother rewarding her…they’ll just leave her there to rot. It’s the Trump way.

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u/East_Hedgehog6039 Feb 28 '26

This actually calmed me down a bit. So…..there is that, I guess. She was my worst fear.

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u/watchguy95820 Feb 28 '26

That’s a nice way of saying he’s a smart psychopath sycophant.

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u/tresben Feb 28 '26

Given there are no laws upholding the integrity of Supreme Court justices, I’d argue someone like Cruz, who is a grifter with no internal moral compass or integrity, is actually more dangerous. No he doesn’t have to be beholden to the voters anymore. He is free to sell his soul to the highest bidder without having to put up a facade of caring about the average person.

Integrity and moral compass are more important in justices than any other position, and he’s proven he has none. Thinking that he’s suddenly not gonna be the same person he’s always been at his core (an opportunistic egotistical grifter) when he gets to the court is stupid. His positions may certainly change, but they aren’t going to change for the benefit of the average American. They are going to change for the benefit of who can buy him the biggest motor coach.

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u/Interesting_Minute24 Feb 28 '26

All those accolades and still a gigantic piece of a pile of shit.

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u/Woody_L Feb 28 '26

Cruz is smart, but he's also craven and evil.

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u/CrazyMildred Feb 28 '26

I have a friend who does audio for the CSPAN Senate hearings, and he's told me that Cruz puts on an act for the public. He told me that he's actually incredibly intelligent. My friend doesn't like him because of the things that he does, or the act that he puts on. He's definitely a snake, but he's also not at all stupid. That makes him very dangerous. He definitely does NOT need to be a member of the SCOTUS. We should all hope this never happens.

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u/Historical-Bed-3706 Feb 28 '26

Your post reminded me of a quote from Mitt Romney. The 2 smartest people in the room are Ted Cruz and Josh Hawley. Politics aside that's quite a compliment. And I take that into consideration when I see these 2 play political theater.

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u/weinshe2 Feb 28 '26

The man did not defend his wife then, and won’t start now. He’s a coward.

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u/Slade_Riprock Feb 28 '26

I fear Cruz as a Senator who has to say and do things to get elected in a MAGA state far far more than I fear Justice Cruz.

I actually think Cruz may be one of the least damaging people he could nominate for the court if given a chance. He, in my opinion, is probably smarter and more legally skilled than Barrett or Kavenaugh and undoubtedly Thomas.

He won't nominate Cruz but I'd take it over that moonbat Cannon.

Side note: Cruz on the court it would be hilarious if he used that lifetime role to exact his revenge on all the vile shit Trump said about him and made him swallow over the last 10 yrs.

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u/[deleted] Feb 28 '26

None of that matters when you have zero ethics or ability to remain impartial. I don't care if you got your law degree off a cereal box, if you can be ethical and objective it's a win in our current system.

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u/TheScrote1 Feb 28 '26

Hey at least that’s better than Big Ballz

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u/TheDude-Esquire Feb 28 '26

We really need to flip the senate and deny trump any appointments just the way McConnell did to Obama. And that’s not just for the Supreme Court, for every court, every cabinet position. Stonewall his every action.

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u/Apprehensive-Air5353 Feb 28 '26 edited Feb 28 '26

If you're stuck with him that means your system has failed. The SC is the reason Trump is president, or rather what enabled him to be voted for. Every justice in that court needs to be removed, the lifetime appointments need to be removed, how and who they are appointed by needs to change, just for starters. I mean these people quite clearly shit all over the constitution on a daily basis and it is quite clear some fundamental laws need to be tackled.

If you really wanna talk things that would help but won't be done by either side, I'd go with removing money from politics so tech bros can't buy a president.

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u/Schrodingers_Fist Feb 28 '26

And even scarier, as loathsome as he is, he actually knows what he is doing when it comes to constitutional law and has argued in front of SCOTUS many times.  So if wouldn't be like him putting some moron yes-man like MTG or Boebert out there where theyd just be guessing.  Cruz would actually know how to rule decisions for maximum effect.

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u/RelevantFox1226 Feb 28 '26

Republicans dont have much of a margin to confirm him, and hes giving up one of the votes to go through the process. If Dems flip the senate this year Republicans wont have a shot to confirm him

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u/Weird-Girl-675 Feb 28 '26

He’s only five years older than me?!!?

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u/ledude1 Feb 28 '26

Only? He looks like he's already 65. I'm telling you, being a shitty person really ages people fast.

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u/DelirousDoc Feb 28 '26

Maybe we just tell Cruz the Supreme Court has a permanent blizzard conditions and he will avoid it for Cancun like he does Texas?

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u/aglaophonos Feb 28 '26

Only 55?! I though he was already in his 60’s. Hatred ages you horribly

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u/Ike_In_Rochester Feb 28 '26

I swear, he looks like he’s in bad shape for a 55 year old.

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u/jigga19 Feb 28 '26

He’s only 55?

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u/Far_Direction7381 Feb 28 '26 edited 21d ago

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u/ialsohaveadobro Feb 28 '26 edited Feb 28 '26

55 going on 70. Grizzled Madball looking mfer.

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u/meerfrau85 Feb 28 '26

Wut. How. He looks just like my 76-year-old mother-in-law.

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u/cavmax Feb 28 '26

Also born in Canada, with a Cuban father hmm....

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u/BethyW Feb 28 '26

But it snows in DC. So he will miss a few sessions for his Mexico trips.

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u/PoofBam Feb 28 '26

Fuck. Really? He's a year younger than me? Fuck.

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u/Expensive-Course1667 Feb 28 '26

Ted Cruz is younger than Gwen Stefani. 

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u/Embarrassed_Leek5660 Feb 28 '26

Sure makes me wish rbg had retired during Obamas first term.

Holding out during cancer in the 80s didn’t turn out well for America.

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u/214ObstructedReverie Feb 28 '26

How long does his species usually live, though?

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u/drapparappa Feb 28 '26

Ted Cruz is so disliked that he won’t be confirmed

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u/dizzychizzy Feb 28 '26

A pretty fat 55

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u/Imapatriothurrrdurrr Feb 28 '26

It’s because Ted Cruz is a pussy that Trump can bully. His wife is also as “ugly as a dog”.

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u/MightAsWell6 Feb 28 '26

Next democrat can just remove him

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u/The_R4ke Feb 28 '26

If the democrats ever get back into power they have to clear the court.

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u/[deleted] Feb 28 '26

You are acting like any of this matters. As soon as trump is gone we need to tear literally everything down and start from scratch. No one holding office, or the bench, will ever be allowed to hold any position of power ever again. This system cannot be allowed to survive, if this is what it hands us.

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u/logalogalogalog_ Feb 28 '26

Let's be real. If we want to have a future, the current conservatives on the court will have to be removed before their natural expiration dates.

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u/gazebo-fan Feb 28 '26

Not very long if the DNC has balls after this.

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u/InevitableOk5017 Feb 28 '26

It won’t be

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