http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/04/07/1376154/-Ted-Cruz-Congress-Should-Strip-Federal-Courts-Of-Jurisdiction-To-Rule-On-Marriage-Equality?detail=email
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. It's the type of idea that would get him the attention of religious right conservatives ... likely lots of positive attention from them. Many of these folks have been apoplectic over the idea that the SCOTUS will likely rule in favor of marriage equality this year.
From Think Progress:
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.
Cruz’s remarks came during a speech in Sioux City, Iowa, where the tea party senator also praised the original, more discrimination-friendly version of Indiana’s new “religious liberty” law, and claimed that a cabal of liberals and big business endorsed a “radical gay marriage agenda” which says that “any person of faith is subject to persecution if they dare” disagree with marriage equality.
urisdiction stripping is a controversial idea that has occasionally been proposed by social conservatives seeking to neuter court decisions that they disapprove of. 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.”
i agree that certain powers of the scotus be relieved along with lifetime appt. but not just so i can get my way the party of stupider seems to not realize that's a two way street they want to do it now to kill fairness and the right to life liberty and the pursuit of happiness, they already got their dark dirty money in and voter suppression but now that it looks like they might side with the real Americans the republicans want to strip them of that power. what do they do the next time they think the ruling will go their way say "never mind" and restore those powers temporarily just for their vote????
clearly he is playing to the tea people but thistime law by light switch turn it off and on as you see your advantage??
