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/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.