The death of Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia shocked Ted Cruz into a sudden realization: It’s even more important than before that Ted Cruz be our next president.
Because of the vacancy, he says, “the Second Amendment, life, marriage, religious liberty, every one of those hangs in the balance.” He warns that “we cannot trust Donald Trump” with this responsibility.
We don’t know what sort of person Trump would like for the court. But we do know what sort of person Cruz likes. And based on that knowledge, we can’t trust Cruz—by Cruz’s own standards.
Consider two justices who have elicited strong opinions from him. The first one is someone whose appointment he regards as “a mistake,” who in one landmark case “changed the law in order to force that failed law on millions of Americans for a political outcome.” The second is a “principled conservative” known for “faithfully applying the Constitution and legal precedent.” But as Steve Chapman explains, these two justices aren’t as different as Cruz’s comments my suggest, and it speaks to Cruz’s desire for a justice that will simply rule as Cruz wants him or her to, not as he or she interprets the Constitution.
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