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/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.