Oct. 6, 2020 - Dennis Prager Show
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| He's on the line. | |
| Let me tell you why I say I'm honored. | |
| I don't use words cavalierly. | |
| Because he is a rare, rare fighter for the American system, for our values. | |
| And he's rare, unfortunately. | |
| You would think the Republicans have a majority here or there, in this case the U.S. Senate. | |
| And this is not to cast aspersion on his colleagues. | |
| As you all know, I divide good people into three groups, and I hope Senator Cruz hears this because he will understand how I regard him. | |
| There are three types of good people. | |
| Those who fight, those who help the fighters, and those who do nothing. | |
| Those who do nothing is the largest group, and those who help the fighters are very important, and he is a fighter. | |
| So, Senator Ted Cruz of Texas, welcome to the Dennis Prager Show. | |
| Well, Dennis, my friend, you are a fighter yourself, and it's an honor to be with you once again. | |
| I take that very sincerely. | |
| Thank you, sir. | |
| So you have a book out, a really important one, One Vote Away, How a Single Supreme Court Seat Can Change History, and you review cases where indeed one vote has changed history. | |
| When was the last time, and I should know the answer, but I don't. | |
| Do you know the answer? | |
| When was the last time that there was a clear conservative majority on the Supreme Court? | |
| I don't know that we've ever had a conservative majority on the Supreme Court, at least in modern times. | |
| We have had a Republican majority for decades. | |
| But one of the things the book goes through is that Republicans are terrible at nominating Supreme Court justices. | |
| They get almost 100% of their picks right. | |
| Republicans, we don't even bat 500. Many of the worst judicial activists in history were nominated by Republican presidents. | |
| And the last chapter of the book, I traced the history of Supreme Court nominations going back to Dwight D. Eisenhower. | |
| And if you look at Earl Warren, William Brennan, John Paul Stevens, David Souter, Harry Blackmun, the author of Roe vs. |
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