Summary: One Vote: Ted Cruz: How a Single Supreme Court Seat Can Change History
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The Supreme Court turned out to be just as important in the 2020 election as Trump. After Justice Ginsburg passed away, a nominee was available for the next President to consider, but Trump and the GOP blocked it first. Former Texas state attorney general Ted Cruz is well-versed in the operations of the Supreme Court, its interesting past, and the significance of the court in upholding the Constitution. A country may be changed by one justice's one vote overturning the Constitution.
Nothing less than our liberties were at jeopardy if a liberal judge joined the court, a Left-wing tactic used since the 1960s.
Cruz was a Supreme Court clerk who successfully litigated before the court multiple times. He is a Supreme Court specialist who turned down a seat on the court because he thought he could better serve the country as a senator and possible president.
Cruz's book is not only pertinent; it also exposes the evil character of the Left and its ongoing campaign to deny Americans their freedom.
DISCLAIMER: Summary: One Vote Away by Ted Cruz.: One Vote Away is the subject of the following unauthorized summary and critique. Ted Cruz did not write it. It is also not meant to take the place of the original book. Quick Savant independently wrote and published it, and it provides you with the key concepts from the main book in a condensed and simple-to-read manner.
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Summary: One Vote Away: Ted Cruz
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Introduction to One Vote Away by Ted Cruz
● Antonin Scalia left us on February 13, 2016, leaving the Supreme Court vulnerable to a takeover by Leftists with Obama, winding down his second term as President to nominate a replacement.
● If Obama were successful in his nomination, it would be 5:4 in favor of the Leftists and more damage to freedom through the Supreme Court disrespecting the Constitution. If the Republicans could filibuster the nomination until after the election, a vote for Donald Trump would translate into a Conservative court.
● The people, not Leftist Obama, should decide by voting in the Presidential election.
● The Supreme Court vacancy helped propel Donald Trump into the White House over Hillary Clinton. His flaws had to be overlooked because Conservatives wanted a Conservative majority court.
Senator Ted Cruz of Texas ran a phenomenally successful campaign against Trump and others for President. He argues that:
● The media gave Trump unfair media coverage--about $3 billion worth--and ignored Ted Cruz's success in winning numerous primaries.
● Cruz claims that if his message reached the people, he tended to win a state, but the avalanche of Trump media coverage all but buried his message, rendering him into oblivion.
● Cruz had a chance to shine in the debates, but the GOP stopped all debates in March of 2016, even though the field remained overpopulated. Cruz did not have the chance to take on Trump one-on-one. The election seemed rigged.
● Cruz is convinced that the Leftists and the media pushed Trump to be the Republican nominee because he could be defeated. He should have been easy to beat by Hillary Clinton with his many flaws, failures, and past mistakes.
● However, Trump was the last man standing in his home state of New York. The media pounced on that outcome to claim the race was over, and Cruz's ratings dropped precipitously from public brainwashing.
● By May 3, 2016, Cruz could not possibly be the mathematical victor, so he stopped his campaign.
● Even though Trump would move to the center for more votes, he had shown Democrat loyalty and a taste for Leftists policies in the past.
● Cruz did not feel like endorsing Trump, the rogue TV persona had attacked his family, but he did feel up to giving a speech at the RNC. He suggested that Trump become as Conservative as possible. Make it about Freedom and the Constitution like Kennedy and Reagan had urged, was his advice to Trump.
● Paul Manafort threatened Cruz to completely endorse Trump. Manafort signaled to his paid “whip” supporters to boo at certain times during Cruz’s speech if he did not like what Cruz was saying.
● Cruz negotiated with the Trump campaign: if he endorsed Trump, Cruz wanted a say in constructing the shortlist to replace Scalia on the Supreme Court.
● Cruz officially endorses Trump on Facebook and points out that the Court is only one justice away from having to give up some of our most fundamental rights if the Leftists take over.
● Cruz spends two months supporting Trump’s campaign.
● Trump offers him Secretary of Homeland Security if he wins, or even Supreme Court Justice. Cruz declines but acts like he might be interested in the Attorney General.
Neil Gorsuch, nominated by Trump, fills the Supreme Court Seat. Neil Gorsuch:
● Survived a Democrat filibuster.
● Took his seat only after a two-year battle with the Democrats.
● After saying justices are supposed to uphold the law and not let their personal opinions sway them, let us his opinion sway him-- including that he hates Trump.
● Since the 1960s, the Leftist Democrats had urged judges to act proactively--and unconstitutionally-- to shape policy.
Cruz claims the supreme Court violated its charter with Roe v. Wade, establishing a new right to abort, usurping power by fiat. It was also wrong to make gay marriage a federal issue, again violating our Constitutional rights.
In his book, and as a previous Supreme Court litigator and clerk for Judge Rehnquist, Cruz promises to explain how the Court works and why it is so crucial in shaping the structure of life in America.
Chapter 1: Religious Liberty and Van Orden V. Perry
On the First Amendment:
● Cruz stresses the importance of freedom to choose one’s religion and practice it without interference.
● Freedom of religion was protected in the very first clause of the First Amendment from the Bill of Rights.
● Tyranny is generally characterized by efforts to constrain, constrict, alter, or eliminate religion. For example, communists want loyalty and commitment to the communist state, not to God.
● Many of the early settlers and Founders were fleeing religious persecution.
● The Founders stated that Congress should not pass laws related to religion.
● According to the Establishment Clause, the power of government should not be used to favor one religion over another.
● Cruz recites the interwoven history of the Christian religion and the US government.
● Cruz shares excerpts from Martin Luther King's letter from the Birmingham Jail and his I Have a Dream speech about the Christian God.
Van Orden v. Perry:
● 1947: E.J. Reugemer, a Minnesota state juvenile judge, sentenced a young man to gain a thorough knowledge of the Ten Commandments to cure his moral decay.
● The judge was a member of the Fraternal Order of Eagles and requested to post the Ten Commandments as a public service Across the Nation.
● Thomas Van Orden, a recent law school graduate, sued as an atheist, saying the Ten Commandments, a symbol of religion, should not be forced upon people on public property.
● Cruz victoriously litigated the case for the state of Texas.
● Cruz decided to compromise when the case went to the Supreme Court to maintain many monuments.
● Cruz served as the youngest state AG in the US.
● Cruz helped his boss, former Judge Abbot, prepare and win the case for Texas.
● Cruz also cites examples of using the word “God” in the pledge of allegiance and the presence of a cross on the Mojave Desert National Preserve.
When Obamacare became law, it required religious organizations to pay for abortion-inducing medications and various forms of contraception. Refusal meant fines of millions of dollars. The Little Sisters of the Poor case in point made it to the Supreme Court following the Hobby Lobby case.
● Trump’s administration resolved the issue before it went to trial.
● Cruz accused Obama of launching a war on Catholics.
The Democrats have gone full anti-religion starting in Trump's Presidency to try to soften his religious base of voters by nullifying the Religious Freedom Restoration Act.
Chapter 2: School Choice and Zelman V. Simmons-Harris
Civil rights issues and freedom of religion issues overlap in school choice.
● Many Hispanic and Black American communities offer limited quality public education opportunities because they cannot attract high-quality teachers nor maintain proper discipline.
● Lack of quality education can lead to a myriad of social problems and a lack of contributory productivity.
● Democrats oppose school choice, in general, because teachers’ unions help fund the Democrat Party.
● Parents of kids stuck in impoverished schools overwhelmingly support school choice.
● Kids who exercise school choice perform better academically.
● Increased competition in public schools helps students who remain.
● School choice offers an opportunity for parents to inject an element of faith if they so desire.
● Taxpayers in the District of Columbia pay approximately $27,000 per student for public schools and yield dismal results against a backdrop of violence, drugs, and crime.
● DC Opportunity Scholarships have a long waiting list, nearly 11,000 students.
● Towards the end of the 20th century, a student entering high school in Cleveland had a higher chance of being the victim of a violent crime while at school than graduating.
● Cleveland also had a scholarship program, but because over 80% of the recipient schools stood as religious affiliations, the local courts prevented students from attending. They stated that public money should not go to religious schools. The Supreme Court, in Zelman v. Simmons-Harris, reversed that decision, 5-4.
● Cruz also points out that scholarships to religious schools are part of a tradition, like Brigham Young or Notre Dame, so why not for Cleveland high school kids?
● The Court's decision did not force religion upon students, it offered free choice, and the only way to break out of a poorly run and failed school system. The Court saw it as a civil-rights issue.
● Cruz’s hard work helped maintain and spread school choice opportunities to over 50 million students.
Chapter 3: Gun Rights and the District of Columbia
The right to possess firearms to protect oneself, the family, and our property and communities, comes from the Second Amendment and is part of the basis for social stability and protection from tyranny.
Disarming a population often precedes tyranny or even genocide.
Cruz litigated the case entitled District of Columbia v. Heller, which involved an effort by the Left to disarm America over the past twenty years.
A police officer who worked for the federal government, Dick Anthony Heller, carried a handgun while working, but DC laws prevented private possession, including in the home. All long guns were not to be kept loaded and required a trigger lock--even if there was a threat.
● Heller decided to challenge DC laws in Court, which encroached upon his Second Amendment individual right to bear arms to protect himself at home.
● The tyranny of the British Empire, and its defeat in America, came from armed citizens in militias.
● The Militia Act put into play in the late 17th century required each male to own a musket and ammunition.
● DC’s court system was so influential that it affected rulings of the Supreme Court, and so allowing DC to effectively disarm the public could be viewed as a precursor to disarm the nation and leave it open to totalitarian control.
● Cruz argued in a companion case called Parker v. District of Columbia as Heller won in the DC Circuit Court and headed towards the Supreme Court.
● Cruz argued that the Second Amendment applied to the states and well as the federal government through “incorporation” and that DC had criminalized the act of self-defense.
● Cruz decided to not only protect the Second Amendment but also demand that the courts pounce on any new laws trying to infringe upon it.
● The Supreme Court, led by Justice Scalia, returned a 5-4 decision in favor of Heller.
● Hillary Clinton promised if she were to become President, to nominate only Supreme Court justices who would agree with DC.
● With the Obama administration controlling the Senate, numerous proposals emerged to eliminate the freedoms granted with the Second Amendment-- and others.
● Over a million occurrences per year: a gun stops a crime.
● Beto and Biden are for strict gun control and against the Second Amendment.
● Beto produced T-Shirts saying that he was going to take away AR-15s.
Chapter 4: Sovereignty and Medellin V. Texas
● A sovereign nation is defined as one which is capable of daily governance and holds officials accountable for their action and maintains law and order.
● The American Revolution arose from sovereignty issues that would support federalism and the separation of powers into the judicial, legislative, and executive as inherited from the British and French.
● Transnational organizations like the United Nations, the EU, and the World Trade Organization attempt to encroach upon national sovereignty as part of a Leftist globalist movement.
● Cruz litigated in Medellin v. Texas to defend Texas and the United States' sovereignty against the World Court of the United Nations.
● Background: gang members of the "Black and Whites" gang brutally beat, sexually violated, and killed two innocent teenage girls who just happened to walk by them.
● The leader was Jose Ernesto Medellin, who confessed, was convicted, and sentenced to death.
● Medellin was an illegal immigrant to the United States, as he was a Mexican national. Under the Vienna Convention on Consular Relations, foreign nationals have the right to communicate with their home country’s consulate.
● Medellin demanded his right through a habeas challenge after several years in prison.
● Mexico sued the United States regarding Medellin and dozens of other convicted criminals, claiming their cases be withdrawn.
● The World Court agreed and ordered to reopen all the cases for new trials.
● The World Court essentially ordered the United States to ignore its own laws about bringing up consular consultations during the trial.
● The case reached the Supreme Court when Cruz served as State Attorney for Texas.
● The State Department, headed by Condoleezza Rice, wanted to grant Mexico what it wanted. George Bush agreed and signed a document to make it official, out of a desire to make our international "allies" happy.
● Cruz cleverly framed his argument as a separation of powers issue, saying the President’s actions violated the power of Congress, the judiciary, and the power of the states. The President must not have the right to set aside laws: period. Texas and Cruz won: 6-3.
Obama and his administration:
● Prodded Hillary Clinton and John Kerry to support the United Nations and other “undemocratic” transnational organizations.
● Pushed his personal version of the Iran nuclear deal, which empowered Iran with money for terrorist acts, including suitcases full of unmarked cash totaling $1.7 billion, allegedly to free hostages. Nearly $100 billion in frozen assets thawed to flow right back into Iran and paralleled promises for hundreds of billions more in aid.
● Obama had bypassed Congress and the Constitutional process ultimately to make an illegal "deal," which he had no right to make. He had it ratified at the UN Security Council, and his partners included China and Russia.
● The Senate had opposed the deal, 58-42.
● Cruz invited Trump to join him in a rally against the Iran Deal.
● Cruz supported Trump’s proposal to move our embassy in Israel to Jerusalem. Trump also withdrew from the Iran deal.
● Mattis and Tillerson had fought against Trump and Cruz on both issues.
Chapter 5: Abortion and Gonzales V. Carhart
Before January 22, 1973, states determined abortion laws through elected legislators, and it had been so for two centuries.
● Roe v. Wade changed all that by the Supreme Court declaring, unconstitutionally, that the people no longer had the right to decide.
● The word "abortion" did not present itself in the Constitution nor the Bill of rights, yet the Court came up with the right to abortion as a "Constitutional right." The Supreme Court had no right to rule on abortion.
● Cruz argues that the protection of human life is a core responsibility of law and that the fetus, from conception on, is human.
● If Roe v. Wade is overturned, then the states will once again be responsible for abortion law.
● Cruz cites evidence that abortion is what mostly drove the testimony of Christine Blasey Ford against Bret Kavanaugh.
● Only 9% of Americans support abortion up to full-term, but it seems that nearly 100% of Democratic leadership does, such as former DNC chair Tom Perez and Presidential candidate Bernie Sanders.
● Pro-lifers worked to create statues requiring minors to secure parental consent before getting abortions.
● Cruz litigated in Ayotte v. Planned Parenthood of Northern New England to protect New Hampshire’s law requiring at least one parent to approve of a minor’s abortion. The law found itself gutted by the New Hampshire Court of Appeals.
The Supreme Court returned a 9-0 ruling requiring, like in over 40 other states, that parental consent as a prerequisite for an abortion for a minor should be law.
Partial-birth abortions:
● The unborn child's body is delivered but not the head, and then the physician (or murderer?) pierces the baby's skull to kill it while the baby's head is still in the womb.
● Fully 30 states banned the procedure, but 20 did not, and Leftists sued to reinstate the barbaric murder of a late-term baby.
● The Supreme Court ruled that the states could not stop the barbaric taking of a baby’s life in this manner.
● George W. Bush signed into federal law a ban on abortion of partial-birth babies.
● The issue bounced back to the Supreme Court in Gonzales v. Carhart. Carhart made his living by performing abortions. The Leftists had argued for a broad statute that would justify abortion based on the mother's state of mind, a totally arbitrary decision, that would essentially permit all late-term abortions.
● Nothing much had changed since the last ruling, except the justices. A conservative had replaced a liberal, and Bush's ban was upheld 5-4.
● Babies feel pain as early as 20 weeks.
● The Born-Alive Abortion Survivors Protection Act protects babies born alive from a doctor's mistake during an abortion. Democrat Senators, except for only three, oppose it and want such a baby to be left alone to die.
● Governor Northam of Virginia, an obstetrician, advocated for children that were supposed to be aborted but emerged alive, be set aside while the parents and doctors decide if they want to kill it or not: a potential "post-birth abortion."
● Cruz's "One Vote Away" argument cannot be better applied than to the issue of late-term abortion or abortion in general-- in this case, a matter of life or death for thousands of babies.
Chapter 6: Free Speech and Citizens United
Non-profit Citizens United (CU) produced and circulated a movie that criticized Hillary Clinton and her proposed policies. Citizens United wanted to run ads for the movie before the election, but the FEC levied fines against it according to legislation passed in 2002: the McCain-Feingold legislation that had to do with the financing of campaigns.
● CU sued the FEC, saying it had the right to free speech, including free speech regarding political candidates.
● The Supreme Court ruled in its favor and ruled that corporations have the right to critique candidates.
● The First Amendment protects the right to spend money on voicing opinions.
● Obama, Sanders, and Biden all expressed their desire to repeal the Citizens United ruling by appointing Leftist judges.
● The Democrats attempted to pass legislation as a Constitutional Amendment to allow the government to control all funds that could bear on an election outcome.
● Making a $5 sign for Cruz could land one in jail if the Democrats had their way, but the "press," the big corporations, had no restrictions.
● The Amendment would have given free rein for the government to punish citizens who spoke against it or candidates.
● Fourteen out of the top twenty organizations which donate money are Democrats. That is 70%.
● The Amendment included the ability to ban books at will.
● The First Amendment protects the right of free speech, no matter how vulgar, insane, or offensive it may be to some.
● All Democrats voted in the Senate to gut the First Amendment.
● Super PACs represent the most significant money spent on elections and allow donors like Soros and Steyr to mask their intentions to control a candidate-- at least for a while.
● Democrats backed 80% of the biggest super PAC donors. Of all the super PACs, nearly $425 million in 2016, about 70%, went to Democrats, and only $189 million went to Republicans.
● Alarming: hefty contributions from super PACs go to officials or candidates who would like to ban books of their choice and tear up the First Amendment.
● Cruz argues that free speech is imperative for seeking out the truth and reiterates that, under the First Amendment, Congress shall not enact laws that limit free speech.
● Cruz reviews the many advantages incumbents have over challengers. Campaign finance reform, written by incumbents, tends to favor incumbents. Stopping donations to challengers would mean incumbents would reign forever, which he labels as ‘un-American.”
● Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Ted Cruz agreed on banning previous Congressional members from becoming lobbyists, a position Cruz stated in 2016 long before Cortez.
● Cruz successfully competed against a strong and prosperous incumbent by a grassroots drive that netted donations from over 43,000 individual donors. Cruz gambled his life savings into his campaign and even added to his debt.
● A Cuban immigrant fathered Cruz. A family’s first child to go to college gave birth to him.
● He benefited from financial aid from the Club for Growth, a conservative philosophy backer.
● Elections are often bought. Cruz informs the reader that if individuals could not make donations, then the rich would simply dominate all offices.
● Cruz thinks the current super PAC system is laughable because it does not permit direct communication between the donors and candidates for strategy or political stance, or campaign management.
● He proposes a two-step super PAC solution, which he calls the Super PAC Elimination Act: (1) permit individual donations on an unlimited basis and (2) require disclosure of said donations within 24 hours.
● Peter Thiel, with $250,000, and innumerable other individuals backed Cruz’s run for Texas AG.
● Cruz had to drop out of the race because his old boss decided to re-enter, Greg Abbot.
● He decides to run for Senate but will need $10 million to win.
● Running for AG helped get his name well-known, and he took advantage of Texas's campaign structure with no imposed limits on individual donations.
● But for a federal position as a Senator, there existed a $2,500 limit per individual donor. Introducing a donor to a super PAC is legal, but not personally, and strategy collusion is forbidden.
● Cruz introduced Thiel to Club for Growth, to which Thiel gave $1 million. Cruz's competitor ran an article tarnishing Thiel, so Thiel gave another million.
● Cruz's donors do not make demands. They just assume he will defend the Constitution at all costs.
● Cruz lists those prominent politicians worth $100 million or more, at least fourteen of them.
Chapter 7: Crime, Law and Order, Capital Punishment, and Kennedy V. Louisiana.
The Supreme Court, starting in the 1960s, made a string of decisions to support criminals over law-abiding citizens.
● Legal technicalities became exploited to get criminals released.
● The exclusionary rule disallowed evidence that had been gathered in abrogating a defendant’s constitutional rights.
● Cruz argued that the rule protects only the guilty.
● Miranda Rights arose from legislation, not the Constitution.
● Cruz supports capital punishment.
● A Supreme Court ruling struck down capital punishment for the worst child rapists.
● Pharmaceutical companies teamed up with the Leftists to help ban lethal injections, thus effectively constraining capital punishment.
● Cruz helped pass legislation leading to Trump's First Step Act, which gave non-violent drug offenders a break but toughened up laws, enforcement, and prison-time for violent criminals. Obama had failed to pass criminal justice reform in his eight years of Presidency.
● Cruz insisted upon amendments to the First Step Act that ensured that clemency was not a possibility for perpetrators of rape, murder, and violent assaults, in general.
● He patterned his Amendment after Texas law that had worked well.
● Jared Kushner and Senator Durbin needed persuasion from Cruz to approve of his amendments, making sure violent criminals were properly sequestered from society.
● Cruz recommended drug rehabilitation and treatment rather than prison time for drug addicts.
● Cruz praised the bipartisan effort for the First Step Act, built upon reasonable compromise and scientific data, as an excellent example of why, rather than judges, legislators make the fairest and just laws.
● Unelected judges had acted in political interest to offer blanket clemency or reduced sentences to violent criminals in violation of constitutional law and their civic responsibility as judges.
Chapter 8: Democracy and the Electoral Process
Cruz shares the perils of having a bit too much to drink when he was in his twenties, and then bowling against Bo Derek with your future wife present.
“Do you believe she is attractive?” his girlfriend asked.
There were times to speak with truth and excitement, but this was not one of them. Cruz and his fiancé would be forever married, and forever would he be reminded of his truthful but problematic response that night.
The 2000 Presidential election, allegedly, had come down to a difference of just 1,784 votes in Florida and Cruz is asked to come to Florida to help straighten things out and litigate on behalf of George Bush, Jr.
● Cruz assembles a team of the most talented and capable attorneys. They need Florida’s 25 electoral votes to win the election.
● The Democrats wanted innumerable recounts until Al Gore would be declared the new President.
● The scandal involved no less than seven court cases.
● The cases involved the shortcomings of the punch card system and mistakes made in its design.
● The case works its way up to the Supreme Court.
● The Court ruled 7-2 that Florida had violated the Equal Protection Clause, and Bush won.
● Cruz shares the details of redistricting that has evident racial focus and bias and draws parallels to the Bush v. Gore election in Florida.
Miranda v. Arizona:
● A 5-4 Supreme Court decision including the creation of the “Miranda Rights” out of thin air--there is no reference to the warnings in the Bill of Rights or the Constitution-- making the ruling more like legislation.
● The right to remain silent comes from the Fifth Amendment, and the right to a lawyer comes from the Sixth Amendment, but for two centuries, police were not required to inform you of those rights.
● Failure to read potential criminals their Miranda Rights resulted in many guilty criminals going free on a technicality-- free to commit more crimes, hurting the taxpayers overall.
Capital punishment:
● Cruz believes capital punishment is just.
● 22 states and the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico banned capital punishment.
● In Furman v. Georgia, in 1972, a 5-4 Leftist activist Supreme Court, for four years, shut down all capital punishment as contrary to the Eighth Amendment and its stance against cruel and unusual punishment.
● The Court had acted on their standard of decency rather than a constitutional basis.
● However, the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments authorize taking a criminal’s life if due process is applied.
● In 1976, the Supreme Court reversed itself in Gregg v. Georgia, allowing capital punishment once again--only after innumerable murderers had their sentences reduced.
● Cruz cites the case of Luis Mata, a convicted rapist and murderer, who gamed the system with ludicrous appeals and breaches of minor technicalities to hand himself 17 more years of life at the taxpayers’ expense, tallied in the millions of dollars.
● Treason can still result in the death penalty.
Conclusion: Getting Judicial Nominations Right Going Forward
● Democrat nominations historically, on the Supreme Court, have voted as the Democrats hoped they would.
● Republican nominations have not voted conservatively about half the time.
● Cruz says the powerful Leftist media rewards Leftist judges and punishes Conservative ones.
● Movies are made about Leftist judges like Ginsburg. Conservative ones the media soon forgets or continues to libel and slander.
● Cruz suggests that Trump must choose Ginsburg's replacement, who will not back down as a Conservative, allowing themselves to be shoved hard to the Left.
● Constitutionalist judges included: Thomas, Scalia, Alito, and Rehnquist.
● What they had in common: service in the executive branch of government, a storied record of Conservatism in making judgments, and withstanding the harsh criticism from the Left.
● Dwight Eisenhower, a Republican, picked two of the most liberal judges in history in the 1950s, William Brennan and Earl Warren.
● Cruz clerked for the “Lone Ranger” on the Supreme Court, Rehnquist, nicknamed for his singular dissent on many Leftist pushes.
● Cruz reviews the bad picks and worse performance by nominees who claimed to be “Republican” or “Conservative.”
● George W. Bush appointed John Roberts, who twisted the law to support Obamacare, which violated interstate commerce statutes by turning a mandate into a tax-- which it was not.
● The mandate was not a tax according to the Anti-Injunction Act, but Roberts held it was a tax according to the Constitution.
● The IRS would soon knock on the doors of some six million Americans, of which 80% earned less than $50,000 per year, to pay the penalty for not buying health insurance that they could not afford nor wanted.
● Even corrupt traitor and philanderer Bill Clinton called it the craziest thing.
● Cruz thinks Roberts acted this way to protect the Court from partisan criticism and maintain jurisprudence-- but instead drew criticism and accusations of partisan impropriety.
Barack Obama:
● Succeeded in two nominees: Sotomayor and Kagan, who tended to vote in a Leftist bloc with Breyer and Ginsburg.
● Trump-appointed Neil Gorsuch, who performed reasonably as a Conservative for his first two terms. Gorsuch voted with the Leftist justices to add gender identity and sexual orientation to the Civil Rights Act of 1964 ruling.
Kavanaugh:
● Trump appointed Kavanaugh even though he held that the Obamacare mandate was, indeed, a tax.
● Cruz’s favorite for nomination now is Utah Senator Mike Lee.
● Cruz reviews Christine Blasey Ford's false accusations against Kavanaugh. Cruz suggested a second hearing so Ford could speak publicly-- but Kavanaugh was to rebut.
● Cruz recommended employing outside counsel to question Ford.
Cruz lists people he thinks would be good Conservative justices: Mike Lee, Jim Ho, Don Willett, and Noel Francisco.
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Summary: One Vote Away: Ted Cruz
Quick Savant
Introduction to One Vote Away by Ted Cruz
● Antonin Scalia left us on February 13, 2016, leaving the Supreme Court vulnerable to a takeover by Leftists with Obama, winding down his second term as President to nominate a replacement.
● If Obama were successful in his nomination, it would be 5:4 in favor of the Leftists and more damage to freedom through the Supreme Court disrespecting the Constitution. If the Republicans could filibuster the nomination until after the election, a vote for Donald Trump would translate into a Conservative court.
● The people, not Leftist Obama, should decide by voting in the Presidential election.
● The Supreme Court vacancy helped propel Donald Trump into the White House over Hillary Clinton. His flaws had to be overlooked because Conservatives wanted a Conservative majority court.
Senator Ted Cruz of Texas ran a phenomenally successful campaign against Trump and others for President. He argues that:
● The media gave Trump unfair media coverage--about $3 billion worth--and ignored Ted Cruz's success in winning numerous primaries.
● Cruz claims that if his message reached the people, he tended to win a state, but the avalanche of Trump media coverage all but buried his message, rendering him into oblivion.
● Cruz had a chance to shine in the debates, but the GOP stopped all debates in March of 2016, even though the field remained overpopulated. Cruz did not have the chance to take on Trump one-on-one. The election seemed rigged.
● Cruz is convinced that the Leftists and the media pushed Trump to be the Republican nominee because he could be defeated. He should have been easy to beat by Hillary Clinton with his many flaws, failures, and past mistakes.
● However, Trump was the last man standing in his home state of New York. The media pounced on that outcome to claim the race was over, and Cruz's ratings dropped precipitously from public brainwashing.
● By May 3, 2016, Cruz could not possibly be the mathematical victor, so he stopped his campaign.
● Even though Trump would move to the center for more votes, he had shown Democrat loyalty and a taste for Leftists policies in the past.
● Cruz did not feel like endorsing Trump, the rogue TV persona had attacked his family, but he did feel up to giving a speech at the RNC. He suggested that Trump become as Conservative as possible. Make it about Freedom and the Constitution like Kennedy and Reagan had urged, was his advice to Trump.
● Paul Manafort threatened Cruz to completely endorse Trump. Manafort signaled to his paid “whip” supporters to boo at certain times during Cruz’s speech if he did not like what Cruz was saying.
● Cruz negotiated with the Trump campaign: if he endorsed Trump, Cruz wanted a say in constructing the shortlist to replace Scalia on the Supreme Court.
● Cruz officially endorses Trump on Facebook and points out that the Court is only one justice away from having to give up some of our most fundamental rights if the Leftists take over.
● Cruz spends two months supporting Trump’s campaign.
● Trump offers him Secretary of Homeland Security if he wins, or even Supreme Court Justice. Cruz declines but acts like he might be interested in the Attorney General.
Neil Gorsuch, nominated by Trump, fills the Supreme Court Seat. Neil Gorsuch:
● Survived a Democrat filibuster.
● Took his seat only after a two-year battle with the Democrats.
● After saying justices are supposed to uphold the law and not let their personal opinions sway them, let us his opinion sway him-- including that he hates Trump.
● Since the 1960s, the Leftist Democrats had urged judges to act proactively--and unconstitutionally-- to shape policy.
Cruz claims the supreme Court violated its charter with Roe v. Wade, establishing a new right to abort, usurping power by fiat. It was also wrong to make gay marriage a federal issue, again violating our Constitutional rights.
In his book, and as a previous Supreme Court litigator and clerk for Judge Rehnquist, Cruz promises to explain how the Court works and why it is so crucial in shaping the structure of life in America.
Chapter 1: Religious Liberty and Van Orden V. Perry
On the First Amendment:
● Cruz stresses the importance of freedom to choose one’s religion and practice it without interference.
● Freedom of religion was protected in the very first clause of the First Amendment from the Bill of Rights.
● Tyranny is generally characterized by efforts to constrain, constrict, alter, or eliminate religion. For example, communists want loyalty and commitment to the communist state, not to God.
● Many of the early settlers and Founders were fleeing religious persecution.
● The Founders stated that Congress should not pass laws related to religion.
● According to the Establishment Clause, the power of government should not be used to favor one religion over another.
● Cruz recites the interwoven history of the Christian religion and the US government.
● Cruz shares excerpts from Martin Luther King's letter from the Birmingham Jail and his I Have a Dream speech about the Christian God.
Van Orden v. Perry:
● 1947: E.J. Reugemer, a Minnesota state juvenile judge, sentenced a young man to gain a thorough knowledge of the Ten Commandments to cure his moral decay.
● The judge was a member of the Fraternal Order of Eagles and requested to post the Ten Commandments as a public service Across the Nation.
● Thomas Van Orden, a recent law school graduate, sued as an atheist, saying the Ten Commandments, a symbol of religion, should not be forced upon people on public property.
● Cruz victoriously litigated the case for the state of Texas.
● Cruz decided to compromise when the case went to the Supreme Court to maintain many monuments.
● Cruz served as the youngest state AG in the US.
● Cruz helped his boss, former Judge Abbot, prepare and win the case for Texas.
● Cruz also cites examples of using the word “God” in the pledge of allegiance and the presence of a cross on the Mojave Desert National Preserve.
When Obamacare became law, it required religious organizations to pay for abortion-inducing medications and various forms of contraception. Refusal meant fines of millions of dollars. The Little Sisters of the Poor case in point made it to the Supreme Court following the Hobby Lobby case.
● Trump’s administration resolved the issue before it went to trial.
● Cruz accused Obama of launching a war on Catholics.
The Democrats have gone full anti-religion starting in Trump's Presidency to try to soften his religious base of voters by nullifying the Religious Freedom Restoration Act.
Chapter 2: School Choice and Zelman V. Simmons-Harris
Civil rights issues and freedom of religion issues overlap in school choice.
● Many Hispanic and Black American communities offer limited quality public education opportunities because they cannot attract high-quality teachers nor maintain proper discipline.
● Lack of quality education can lead to a myriad of social problems and a lack of contributory productivity.
● Democrats oppose school choice, in general, because teachers’ unions help fund the Democrat Party.
● Parents of kids stuck in impoverished schools overwhelmingly support school choice.
● Kids who exercise school choice perform better academically.
● Increased competition in public schools helps students who remain.
● School choice offers an opportunity for parents to inject an element of faith if they so desire.
● Taxpayers in the District of Columbia pay approximately $27,000 per student for public schools and yield dismal results against a backdrop of violence, drugs, and crime.
● DC Opportunity Scholarships have a long waiting list, nearly 11,000 students.
● Towards the end of the 20th century, a student entering high school in Cleveland had a higher chance of being the victim of a violent crime while at school than graduating.
● Cleveland also had a scholarship program, but because over 80% of the recipient schools stood as religious affiliations, the local courts prevented students from attending. They stated that public money should not go to religious schools. The Supreme Court, in Zelman v. Simmons-Harris, reversed that decision, 5-4.
● Cruz also points out that scholarships to religious schools are part of a tradition, like Brigham Young or Notre Dame, so why not for Cleveland high school kids?
● The Court's decision did not force religion upon students, it offered free choice, and the only way to break out of a poorly run and failed school system. The Court saw it as a civil-rights issue.
● Cruz’s hard work helped maintain and spread school choice opportunities to over 50 million students.
Chapter 3: Gun Rights and the District of Columbia
The right to possess firearms to protect oneself, the family, and our property and communities, comes from the Second Amendment and is part of the basis for social stability and protection from tyranny.
Disarming a population often precedes tyranny or even genocide.
Cruz litigated the case entitled District of Columbia v. Heller, which involved an effort by the Left to disarm America over the past twenty years.
A police officer who worked for the federal government, Dick Anthony Heller, carried a handgun while working, but DC laws prevented private possession, including in the home. All long guns were not to be kept loaded and required a trigger lock--even if there was a threat.
● Heller decided to challenge DC laws in Court, which encroached upon his Second Amendment individual right to bear arms to protect himself at home.
● The tyranny of the British Empire, and its defeat in America, came from armed citizens in militias.
● The Militia Act put into play in the late 17th century required each male to own a musket and ammunition.
● DC’s court system was so influential that it affected rulings of the Supreme Court, and so allowing DC to effectively disarm the public could be viewed as a precursor to disarm the nation and leave it open to totalitarian control.
● Cruz argued in a companion case called Parker v. District of Columbia as Heller won in the DC Circuit Court and headed towards the Supreme Court.
● Cruz argued that the Second Amendment applied to the states and well as the federal government through “incorporation” and that DC had criminalized the act of self-defense.
● Cruz decided to not only protect the Second Amendment but also demand that the courts pounce on any new laws trying to infringe upon it.
● The Supreme Court, led by Justice Scalia, returned a 5-4 decision in favor of Heller.
● Hillary Clinton promised if she were to become President, to nominate only Supreme Court justices who would agree with DC.
● With the Obama administration controlling the Senate, numerous proposals emerged to eliminate the freedoms granted with the Second Amendment-- and others.
● Over a million occurrences per year: a gun stops a crime.
● Beto and Biden are for strict gun control and against the Second Amendment.
● Beto produced T-Shirts saying that he was going to take away AR-15s.
Chapter 4: Sovereignty and Medellin V. Texas
● A sovereign nation is defined as one which is capable of daily governance and holds officials accountable for their action and maintains law and order.
● The American Revolution arose from sovereignty issues that would support federalism and the separation of powers into the judicial, legislative, and executive as inherited from the British and French.
● Transnational organizations like the United Nations, the EU, and the World Trade Organization attempt to encroach upon national sovereignty as part of a Leftist globalist movement.
● Cruz litigated in Medellin v. Texas to defend Texas and the United States' sovereignty against the World Court of the United Nations.
● Background: gang members of the "Black and Whites" gang brutally beat, sexually violated, and killed two innocent teenage girls who just happened to walk by them.
● The leader was Jose Ernesto Medellin, who confessed, was convicted, and sentenced to death.
● Medellin was an illegal immigrant to the United States, as he was a Mexican national. Under the Vienna Convention on Consular Relations, foreign nationals have the right to communicate with their home country’s consulate.
● Medellin demanded his right through a habeas challenge after several years in prison.
● Mexico sued the United States regarding Medellin and dozens of other convicted criminals, claiming their cases be withdrawn.
● The World Court agreed and ordered to reopen all the cases for new trials.
● The World Court essentially ordered the United States to ignore its own laws about bringing up consular consultations during the trial.
● The case reached the Supreme Court when Cruz served as State Attorney for Texas.
● The State Department, headed by Condoleezza Rice, wanted to grant Mexico what it wanted. George Bush agreed and signed a document to make it official, out of a desire to make our international "allies" happy.
● Cruz cleverly framed his argument as a separation of powers issue, saying the President’s actions violated the power of Congress, the judiciary, and the power of the states. The President must not have the right to set aside laws: period. Texas and Cruz won: 6-3.
Obama and his administration:
● Prodded Hillary Clinton and John Kerry to support the United Nations and other “undemocratic” transnational organizations.
● Pushed his personal version of the Iran nuclear deal, which empowered Iran with money for terrorist acts, including suitcases full of unmarked cash totaling $1.7 billion, allegedly to free hostages. Nearly $100 billion in frozen assets thawed to flow right back into Iran and paralleled promises for hundreds of billions more in aid.
● Obama had bypassed Congress and the Constitutional process ultimately to make an illegal "deal," which he had no right to make. He had it ratified at the UN Security Council, and his partners included China and Russia.
● The Senate had opposed the deal, 58-42.
● Cruz invited Trump to join him in a rally against the Iran Deal.
● Cruz supported Trump’s proposal to move our embassy in Israel to Jerusalem. Trump also withdrew from the Iran deal.
● Mattis and Tillerson had fought against Trump and Cruz on both issues.
Chapter 5: Abortion and Gonzales V. Carhart
Before January 22, 1973, states determined abortion laws through elected legislators, and it had been so for two centuries.
● Roe v. Wade changed all that by the Supreme Court declaring, unconstitutionally, that the people no longer had the right to decide.
● The word "abortion" did not present itself in the Constitution nor the Bill of rights, yet the Court came up with the right to abortion as a "Constitutional right." The Supreme Court had no right to rule on abortion.
● Cruz argues that the protection of human life is a core responsibility of law and that the fetus, from conception on, is human.
● If Roe v. Wade is overturned, then the states will once again be responsible for abortion law.
● Cruz cites evidence that abortion is what mostly drove the testimony of Christine Blasey Ford against Bret Kavanaugh.
● Only 9% of Americans support abortion up to full-term, but it seems that nearly 100% of Democratic leadership does, such as former DNC chair Tom Perez and Presidential candidate Bernie Sanders.
● Pro-lifers worked to create statues requiring minors to secure parental consent before getting abortions.
● Cruz litigated in Ayotte v. Planned Parenthood of Northern New England to protect New Hampshire’s law requiring at least one parent to approve of a minor’s abortion. The law found itself gutted by the New Hampshire Court of Appeals.
The Supreme Court returned a 9-0 ruling requiring, like in over 40 other states, that parental consent as a prerequisite for an abortion for a minor should be law.
Partial-birth abortions:
● The unborn child's body is delivered but not the head, and then the physician (or murderer?) pierces the baby's skull to kill it while the baby's head is still in the womb.
● Fully 30 states banned the procedure, but 20 did not, and Leftists sued to reinstate the barbaric murder of a late-term baby.
● The Supreme Court ruled that the states could not stop the barbaric taking of a baby’s life in this manner.
● George W. Bush signed into federal law a ban on abortion of partial-birth babies.
● The issue bounced back to the Supreme Court in Gonzales v. Carhart. Carhart made his living by performing abortions. The Leftists had argued for a broad statute that would justify abortion based on the mother's state of mind, a totally arbitrary decision, that would essentially permit all late-term abortions.
● Nothing much had changed since the last ruling, except the justices. A conservative had replaced a liberal, and Bush's ban was upheld 5-4.
● Babies feel pain as early as 20 weeks.
● The Born-Alive Abortion Survivors Protection Act protects babies born alive from a doctor's mistake during an abortion. Democrat Senators, except for only three, oppose it and want such a baby to be left alone to die.
● Governor Northam of Virginia, an obstetrician, advocated for children that were supposed to be aborted but emerged alive, be set aside while the parents and doctors decide if they want to kill it or not: a potential "post-birth abortion."
● Cruz's "One Vote Away" argument cannot be better applied than to the issue of late-term abortion or abortion in general-- in this case, a matter of life or death for thousands of babies.
Chapter 6: Free Speech and Citizens United
Non-profit Citizens United (CU) produced and circulated a movie that criticized Hillary Clinton and her proposed policies. Citizens United wanted to run ads for the movie before the election, but the FEC levied fines against it according to legislation passed in 2002: the McCain-Feingold legislation that had to do with the financing of campaigns.
● CU sued the FEC, saying it had the right to free speech, including free speech regarding political candidates.
● The Supreme Court ruled in its favor and ruled that corporations have the right to critique candidates.
● The First Amendment protects the right to spend money on voicing opinions.
● Obama, Sanders, and Biden all expressed their desire to repeal the Citizens United ruling by appointing Leftist judges.
● The Democrats attempted to pass legislation as a Constitutional Amendment to allow the government to control all funds that could bear on an election outcome.
● Making a $5 sign for Cruz could land one in jail if the Democrats had their way, but the "press," the big corporations, had no restrictions.
● The Amendment would have given free rein for the government to punish citizens who spoke against it or candidates.
● Fourteen out of the top twenty organizations which donate money are Democrats. That is 70%.
● The Amendment included the ability to ban books at will.
● The First Amendment protects the right of free speech, no matter how vulgar, insane, or offensive it may be to some.
● All Democrats voted in the Senate to gut the First Amendment.
● Super PACs represent the most significant money spent on elections and allow donors like Soros and Steyr to mask their intentions to control a candidate-- at least for a while.
● Democrats backed 80% of the biggest super PAC donors. Of all the super PACs, nearly $425 million in 2016, about 70%, went to Democrats, and only $189 million went to Republicans.
● Alarming: hefty contributions from super PACs go to officials or candidates who would like to ban books of their choice and tear up the First Amendment.
● Cruz argues that free speech is imperative for seeking out the truth and reiterates that, under the First Amendment, Congress shall not enact laws that limit free speech.
● Cruz reviews the many advantages incumbents have over challengers. Campaign finance reform, written by incumbents, tends to favor incumbents. Stopping donations to challengers would mean incumbents would reign forever, which he labels as ‘un-American.”
● Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Ted Cruz agreed on banning previous Congressional members from becoming lobbyists, a position Cruz stated in 2016 long before Cortez.
● Cruz successfully competed against a strong and prosperous incumbent by a grassroots drive that netted donations from over 43,000 individual donors. Cruz gambled his life savings into his campaign and even added to his debt.
● A Cuban immigrant fathered Cruz. A family’s first child to go to college gave birth to him.
● He benefited from financial aid from the Club for Growth, a conservative philosophy backer.
● Elections are often bought. Cruz informs the reader that if individuals could not make donations, then the rich would simply dominate all offices.
● Cruz thinks the current super PAC system is laughable because it does not permit direct communication between the donors and candidates for strategy or political stance, or campaign management.
● He proposes a two-step super PAC solution, which he calls the Super PAC Elimination Act: (1) permit individual donations on an unlimited basis and (2) require disclosure of said donations within 24 hours.
● Peter Thiel, with $250,000, and innumerable other individuals backed Cruz’s run for Texas AG.
● Cruz had to drop out of the race because his old boss decided to re-enter, Greg Abbot.
● He decides to run for Senate but will need $10 million to win.
● Running for AG helped get his name well-known, and he took advantage of Texas's campaign structure with no imposed limits on individual donations.
● But for a federal position as a Senator, there existed a $2,500 limit per individual donor. Introducing a donor to a super PAC is legal, but not personally, and strategy collusion is forbidden.
● Cruz introduced Thiel to Club for Growth, to which Thiel gave $1 million. Cruz's competitor ran an article tarnishing Thiel, so Thiel gave another million.
● Cruz's donors do not make demands. They just assume he will defend the Constitution at all costs.
● Cruz lists those prominent politicians worth $100 million or more, at least fourteen of them.
Chapter 7: Crime, Law and Order, Capital Punishment, and Kennedy V. Louisiana.
The Supreme Court, starting in the 1960s, made a string of decisions to support criminals over law-abiding citizens.
● Legal technicalities became exploited to get criminals released.
● The exclusionary rule disallowed evidence that had been gathered in abrogating a defendant’s constitutional rights.
● Cruz argued that the rule protects only the guilty.
● Miranda Rights arose from legislation, not the Constitution.
● Cruz supports capital punishment.
● A Supreme Court ruling struck down capital punishment for the worst child rapists.
● Pharmaceutical companies teamed up with the Leftists to help ban lethal injections, thus effectively constraining capital punishment.
● Cruz helped pass legislation leading to Trump's First Step Act, which gave non-violent drug offenders a break but toughened up laws, enforcement, and prison-time for violent criminals. Obama had failed to pass criminal justice reform in his eight years of Presidency.
● Cruz insisted upon amendments to the First Step Act that ensured that clemency was not a possibility for perpetrators of rape, murder, and violent assaults, in general.
● He patterned his Amendment after Texas law that had worked well.
● Jared Kushner and Senator Durbin needed persuasion from Cruz to approve of his amendments, making sure violent criminals were properly sequestered from society.
● Cruz recommended drug rehabilitation and treatment rather than prison time for drug addicts.
● Cruz praised the bipartisan effort for the First Step Act, built upon reasonable compromise and scientific data, as an excellent example of why, rather than judges, legislators make the fairest and just laws.
● Unelected judges had acted in political interest to offer blanket clemency or reduced sentences to violent criminals in violation of constitutional law and their civic responsibility as judges.
Chapter 8: Democracy and the Electoral Process
Cruz shares the perils of having a bit too much to drink when he was in his twenties, and then bowling against Bo Derek with your future wife present.
“Do you believe she is attractive?” his girlfriend asked.
There were times to speak with truth and excitement, but this was not one of them. Cruz and his fiancé would be forever married, and forever would he be reminded of his truthful but problematic response that night.
The 2000 Presidential election, allegedly, had come down to a difference of just 1,784 votes in Florida and Cruz is asked to come to Florida to help straighten things out and litigate on behalf of George Bush, Jr.
● Cruz assembles a team of the most talented and capable attorneys. They need Florida’s 25 electoral votes to win the election.
● The Democrats wanted innumerable recounts until Al Gore would be declared the new President.
● The scandal involved no less than seven court cases.
● The cases involved the shortcomings of the punch card system and mistakes made in its design.
● The case works its way up to the Supreme Court.
● The Court ruled 7-2 that Florida had violated the Equal Protection Clause, and Bush won.
● Cruz shares the details of redistricting that has evident racial focus and bias and draws parallels to the Bush v. Gore election in Florida.
Miranda v. Arizona:
● A 5-4 Supreme Court decision including the creation of the “Miranda Rights” out of thin air--there is no reference to the warnings in the Bill of Rights or the Constitution-- making the ruling more like legislation.
● The right to remain silent comes from the Fifth Amendment, and the right to a lawyer comes from the Sixth Amendment, but for two centuries, police were not required to inform you of those rights.
● Failure to read potential criminals their Miranda Rights resulted in many guilty criminals going free on a technicality-- free to commit more crimes, hurting the taxpayers overall.
Capital punishment:
● Cruz believes capital punishment is just.
● 22 states and the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico banned capital punishment.
● In Furman v. Georgia, in 1972, a 5-4 Leftist activist Supreme Court, for four years, shut down all capital punishment as contrary to the Eighth Amendment and its stance against cruel and unusual punishment.
● The Court had acted on their standard of decency rather than a constitutional basis.
● However, the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments authorize taking a criminal’s life if due process is applied.
● In 1976, the Supreme Court reversed itself in Gregg v. Georgia, allowing capital punishment once again--only after innumerable murderers had their sentences reduced.
● Cruz cites the case of Luis Mata, a convicted rapist and murderer, who gamed the system with ludicrous appeals and breaches of minor technicalities to hand himself 17 more years of life at the taxpayers’ expense, tallied in the millions of dollars.
● Treason can still result in the death penalty.
Conclusion: Getting Judicial Nominations Right Going Forward
● Democrat nominations historically, on the Supreme Court, have voted as the Democrats hoped they would.
● Republican nominations have not voted conservatively about half the time.
● Cruz says the powerful Leftist media rewards Leftist judges and punishes Conservative ones.
● Movies are made about Leftist judges like Ginsburg. Conservative ones the media soon forgets or continues to libel and slander.
● Cruz suggests that Trump must choose Ginsburg's replacement, who will not back down as a Conservative, allowing themselves to be shoved hard to the Left.
● Constitutionalist judges included: Thomas, Scalia, Alito, and Rehnquist.
● What they had in common: service in the executive branch of government, a storied record of Conservatism in making judgments, and withstanding the harsh criticism from the Left.
● Dwight Eisenhower, a Republican, picked two of the most liberal judges in history in the 1950s, William Brennan and Earl Warren.
● Cruz clerked for the “Lone Ranger” on the Supreme Court, Rehnquist, nicknamed for his singular dissent on many Leftist pushes.
● Cruz reviews the bad picks and worse performance by nominees who claimed to be “Republican” or “Conservative.”
● George W. Bush appointed John Roberts, who twisted the law to support Obamacare, which violated interstate commerce statutes by turning a mandate into a tax-- which it was not.
● The mandate was not a tax according to the Anti-Injunction Act, but Roberts held it was a tax according to the Constitution.
● The IRS would soon knock on the doors of some six million Americans, of which 80% earned less than $50,000 per year, to pay the penalty for not buying health insurance that they could not afford nor wanted.
● Even corrupt traitor and philanderer Bill Clinton called it the craziest thing.
● Cruz thinks Roberts acted this way to protect the Court from partisan criticism and maintain jurisprudence-- but instead drew criticism and accusations of partisan impropriety.
Barack Obama:
● Succeeded in two nominees: Sotomayor and Kagan, who tended to vote in a Leftist bloc with Breyer and Ginsburg.
● Trump-appointed Neil Gorsuch, who performed reasonably as a Conservative for his first two terms. Gorsuch voted with the Leftist justices to add gender identity and sexual orientation to the Civil Rights Act of 1964 ruling.
Kavanaugh:
● Trump appointed Kavanaugh even though he held that the Obamacare mandate was, indeed, a tax.
● Cruz’s favorite for nomination now is Utah Senator Mike Lee.
● Cruz reviews Christine Blasey Ford's false accusations against Kavanaugh. Cruz suggested a second hearing so Ford could speak publicly-- but Kavanaugh was to rebut.
● Cruz recommended employing outside counsel to question Ford.
Cruz lists people he thinks would be good Conservative justices: Mike Lee, Jim Ho, Don Willett, and Noel Francisco.
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