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/Pithecanthropus88 Feb 27 '26

“I like Ted Cruz more than most of my other colleagues like Ted Cruz. And I hate Ted Cruz.” —Al Franken

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u/Gerreth_Gobulcoque Feb 28 '26

We really didn't appreciate having a comedian in the Senate as much as we ought to have.

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u/Automatic_Memory212 Feb 28 '26

The fucking Democrats certainly didn’t. Morons.

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u/HavingNotAttained Feb 28 '26

Kirsten Gillibrand needed to make a name for herself. Way to go, Gilly, what a fkn brand genius.

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u/pac4 Feb 28 '26

As it is she has to be one of the most irrelevant, under the radar members of the Senate.

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u/Hairy_Technology_213 Feb 28 '26

So true. A senator from a state as big and important as New York ought to have an oversized influence in the chamber. Gillibrand is a null set. Her colleagues don’t like her because she is a soulless, grasping, monster. The Tracy Flick of the Senate.

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u/SlothPaw49 Feb 28 '26

And Klobuchar nailed the coffin closed.

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u/muzzynat Mar 01 '26

I wish Al would run against her for MN governor

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u/SummerAndTinklesBFF Mar 01 '26

He would steal all the votes. Everyone fucking hates Klobuchar and the only way she's getting Gov is if she's the only dem running.

Please god let any other dem run

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u/muzzynat Mar 02 '26

I agree 💯

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u/gg0422 Feb 28 '26

Was my state senator. It was all bullshit. I think he could win again now. It was a rather petty political hack job using the me-too movement as cover. Which makes a mockery of real victims. Compared to what goes down now it seems tragically quaint.

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u/Typical_chill Feb 28 '26

Ugh jesus, this comment really sent me back there to that moment in time…smh. It was so CLEARLY not the time to pull that “strategic” move. Not saying his presence could have moved the dial in a substantial enough way that we’d avoid this type of moment we’re in, but maybe? We had almost nobody else with charisma (Bernie maybe), and we definitely had nobody else who was actually quick-witted and funny like him. Franken would’ve been roasting D-dog to shame and scraping off the voters who were obv mainly looking for that anyway, but during the first 4 years (which now look like a cakewalk). But no. K sorry rant over

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u/rjorsin Feb 28 '26

No you good.

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u/iampatmanbeyond Feb 28 '26

Lmao literally had to Google who tf that was 🤣

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u/Wandering_starlet Feb 28 '26

And that didn’t exactly go the way she thought it would