Sen Ted Cruz got up on the Senate floor and immediately laid one on John Roberts that not even Ajax could take off. His diatribe was over Robert’s indefensible vote to keep DACA active even though it is completely unconstitutional. Barack Obama never had the power to bestow rights on illegal aliens. That is a power reserved for congress. Cruz spent a full ten minutes dressing down the activist chief justice in a well deserved dressing down.
Cruz said:
Mr. President, today’s U.S. Supreme Court Ruling, in the Department of Homeland Security versus the University of California Regents, is disgraceful. Judging is not a game. It’s not supposed to be a game. But, sadly, in recent years, more and more, Chief Justice Roberts has been playing games with the court to achieve the policy outcomes he desires. This case concerned President Obama’s executive amnesty. Amnesty that President Obama decreed, directly contrary to federal law. He did so with no legal authority. He did so in open defiance of federal statutes.
President Obama’s executive amnesty was illegal the day it was issued, and not one single justice of the nine Supreme Court justices disputed that. Not a one. Chief Justice Roberts wrote the majority opinion, joined by the four liberal justices on the court. This is becoming a pattern. The majority believes that Obama’s executive amnesty is illegal, and then, bizarrely, holds that the Trump administration can’t stop implementing a policy that is illegal.
The majority holds that, of course, an administration can stop an illegal policy. “All parties agree”—that’s a quote—all parties agree that “DHS may rescind DACA.”
The majority then says, “You know what? The agency’s explanation wasn’t detailed enough.”
John Roberts should resign immediately as his actions delegitimizes the Supreme Court atn a time when we really need a fair and impartial arbiter of the law., That will never be Roberts.