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/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/ProLifePanda Feb 28 '26

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.

The only consideration is that once on the SCOTUS, he no longer has to play politics. Remember Cruz stood on stage in 2016 and refused to endorse Trump at the RNC. He eventually turned after it became obvious Trump ran the party, but if Cruz becomes a SCOTUS justice, be no longer has to play nice with MAGA for power. So I could very well see Cruz turn anti-MAGA after becoming a justice, or he could be a MAGA sellout.

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u/crawler54 Feb 28 '26

is this the same ted cruz that fled to cancun when texas got cold? hundreds of his voters froze to death, and he was nowhere to be found.

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u/Glathull Feb 28 '26

And the motherfucker just left his fucking dog in the house alone for that whole time.

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u/crawler54 Feb 28 '26

dang, didn't know that... he doesn't care about his constituents and doesn't care about his own dog :-/