Dominionist Cruz wants to eliminate separation of powers

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Ted Cruz: Congress should strip federal courts of jurisdiction to rule on marriage

While Ted Cruz isn't the first to come up with a jurisdiction-stripping scheme for the nation's judiciary, it is still a radical idea. ...

From Think Progress: http://thinkprogress.org/justice/2015/04/06/3643268/ted-cruz-threatens-take-away-supreme-courts-power-decide-marriage-equality-cases/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter

In the likely event that the Supreme Court brings marriage equality to all 50 states this summer, Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) wants to strip the entire federal judiciary of its power to hear cases brought by same-sex couples seeking the right to marry, according to the Dallas Morning News.

... In 1981, for example, lawmakers introduced a total of 22 bills seeking to remove the Supreme Court’s power to hear cases involving “prayer in the schools, abortion, school busing, a males-only draft and state court rulings.” Reacting to Sen. Jesse Helms’s (R-NC) proposal to eliminate the Court’s authority to hear school prayer cases, Sen. Barry Goldwater (R-AZ) claimed that the bill was akin to “outlawing the Supreme Court.”

From MSNBC: http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/cruz-touts-radical-court-stripping-scheme?utm_content=buffer5a698&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=buffer

Whatever one thinks of marriage equality, court-stripping is itself a ridiculous idea. The constitutional principles of “separation of powers” hasn’t disappeared just yet, so the idea that the legislative branch will dictate to the courts what kind of cases judges are allowed to hear is more than a little crazy – it undermines the very idea of an independent judiciary.

And it sure as heck isn’t “constitutional conservatism.” Indeed, it’s effectively the congressional version of “legislating from the bench” – Cruz and his cohorts want to adjudicate from the legislature.

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1. So he wants 50 separate states practicing sexual, racial, and religious apartheid

sounds like.
American Taliban.