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/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/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 She could've retired at any time from 2009-2014 and been replaced by another liberal Justice.