{"id":76070,"date":"2020-09-26T19:24:01","date_gmt":"2020-09-26T16:24:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/the-chance-for-a-conservative-supreme-court-is-now\/"},"modified":"2020-09-26T19:24:01","modified_gmt":"2020-09-26T16:24:01","slug":"the-chance-for-a-conservative-supreme-court-is-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/the-chance-for-a-conservative-supreme-court-is-now\/","title":{"rendered":"#The chance for a conservative Supreme Court is now"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#The chance for a conservative Supreme Court is now<\/strong>”<\/p>\n

\n President Trump has thus far had two successfully app<\/a>ointed Supreme Court nominees. Trump\u2019s first nominee, Neil Gorsuch, had a solid record on the US Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit \u2014 including multiple robust opinions in defense of religious liberty \u2014 although it was a record not nearly as lengthy, distinguished, and conservative as those of Justices William Rehnquist, Antonin Scalia or Samuel Alito.<\/p>\n

Justice Gorsuch\u2019s first two terms on the Court were mostly good, but only time will tell what kind of justice Neil Gorsuch will ultimately become. History, alas, has shown that these questions are measured in decades, and not merely in a few years.<\/p>\n

Sadly, this past June \u2014 in the most notable decision of his short tenure \u2014 we\u2019ve already seen Justice Gorsuch joining Chief Justice John Roberts and voting with the four liberals in a landmark decision, where the Court concluded that the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which prohibits discrimination \u201cbecause of \u2026\u2002sex,\u201d also covers sexual orientation and gender identity. As a policy matter, you might believe Gorsuch\u2019s position isn\u2019t unreasonable.<\/p>\n

Indeed, legislation to protect sexual orientation and gender identity has repeatedly been introduced in Congress, and at different times it has passed both the House and the Senate. But rather than allow elected legislators to make the policy decisions \u2014 and to address whatever compromises might be needed to protect free speech, religious liberty and other fundamental rights \u2014 the Court just decreed the law was changed. Justices Alito, Clarence Thomas and Brett Kavanaugh dissented. Justice Alito put his disapproval in no uncertain terms, writing that \u201cthe Court\u2019s opinion is like a pirate ship. It sails under a textualist flag, but what it actually represents is a theory of statutory interpretation that Justice Scalia excoriated \u2014 the theory that courts should \u2018update\u2019 old statutes so that they better reflect the current values of society.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Justice Gorsuch\u2019s first two terms on the Court have already seen him voting with the four liberals in a landmark decision.<\/span>Getty Images<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

President Trump\u2019s second nominee, to replace Justice Anthony Kennedy, was Brett Kavanaugh. Judge Kavanaugh had a record much like that of Roberts. Indeed, when then-presidential candidate Trump put out his initial list of 11 judges, and subsequently his expanded list of 21 judges, Kavanaugh\u2019s name was deliberately omitted. The reason for this was simple: Kavanaugh, on the DC Circuit, had written an opinion in a case called Seven-Sky v. Holder arguing that the ObamaCare individual mandate was a tax; it was an opinion that many saw as a roadmap for Roberts\u2019 subsequent decision upholding ObamaCare in NFIB v. Sebelius.<\/p>\n

Kavanaugh had been a law clerk to Justice Kennedy, and the Washington rumor mill churned with the belief that Kennedy wanted Kavanaugh to replace him and that Kennedy agreed to retire only after the Trump White House made that promise. I don\u2019t know for certain if those rumors are true, but they are certainly plausible.<\/p>\n

Kavanaugh, like Roberts, has often sought to avoid controversy. It is no small irony, then, that his confirmation hearing was transformed into a brutal and vicious personal smear, driven by the Democrats.<\/p>\n

Judge Kavanaugh was previously a senior staffer in the George W. Bush White House, and he was very much a DC insider. He\u2019s smart, affable and gregarious. Had Jeb Bush won the 2016 presidential nomination and become president, Brett Kavanaugh almost certainly would have been Jeb\u2019s first nominee. Personally, I like Brett, but when President Trump nominated him after the urging of many longtime voices in Washington, I worried about the jurisprudential consequences.<\/p>\n

What kind of justice Brett Kavanaugh will be is a question that will take many years to assess. John Roberts has already become the new Sandra Day O\u2019Connor, and some observers fear Kavanaugh may join him as the new Anthony Kennedy, together as the swing justices and arbiters in the middle of the Court. And, as the recent Title VII case illustrated \u2014 just as it would vary whether it was Kennedy or O\u2019Connor siding with the liberals \u2014 it could also sometimes be Gorsuch doing so. It\u2019s too early to make that conclusion, but time will tell. I fervently hope that\u2019s not the case.<\/p>\n

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It\u2019s still too early to tell what to make of Brett Kavanaugh, but like Roberts, he often seeks to avoid controversy, writes Sen. Cruz.<\/span>The Asahi Shimbun via Getty Imag<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Both nominees will no doubt prove better than the nominees Hillary Clinton would have put on the Court. But Republican presidents must do better than our record the past 70 years.<\/p>\n

With the next nominee, the most important criteria that I believe should be applied is whether that individual (1) has a demonstrated proven record of being faithful to the Constitution and (2) has endured pounding criticism \u2014 has paid a price for holding that line. Had I been able to choose between Edith Jones and David Souter, I would readily have chosen Judge Jones. Had I been able to choose between John Roberts and Mike Luttig, I would have enthusiastically chosen Judge Luttig. Had I been able to choose between Brett Kavanaugh and Mike Lee, or Neil Gorsuch and Mike Lee, I would have unhesitatingly chosen Mike Lee.<\/p>\n

All for the same reason. The stakes are too high \u2014 too many critical issues are hanging in the balance. Every single time, without exception, that Republicans nominate a justice who lacks a serious proven record of going through the crucible, that justice has proven a disappointment.<\/p>\n

Clerks often emulate their justices. We need more former clerks for Thomas and Scalia (such as Amy Coney Barrett), and fewer Kennedy clerks. Justices \u201cin the mold of Scalia and Thomas\u201d should mean just that.<\/p>\n

In the world of Washington, there are always trusted insiders, graybeards who will tell a president, \u201cI know so and so,\u201d and even though their record doesn\u2019t demonstrate it, \u201ctrust me,\u201d deep down in their heart, they\u2019re going to be conservative. History teaches us that those siren promises are always, always, always wrong. If a judicial nominee does not have a demonstrated proven record, if we cannot be confident he or she will withstand the praise and punishment, the carrot and stick of the press and the academy, then they should not be named to the Supreme Court. The stakes are simply too high. After all, we\u2019re just one vote away.<\/p>\n

This essay is excerpted from Sen. Ted Cruz\u2019s book \u201cOne Vote Away: How a Single Supreme Court Seat Can Change History<\/a>\u201d (Regnery Publishing), out Tuesday.<\/em>\n <\/div>\n

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