Dennis Prager Show - Ted Cruz: Republicans Are Terrible at Nominating Supreme Court Justices
Aired: 2020-10-06
Duration: 02:21


=== Rare Fighters for Values (02:21) ===

[00:00:00]  He's on the line.
[00:00:01]  Let me tell you why I say I'm honored.
[00:00:03]  I don't use words cavalierly.
[00:00:07]  Because he is a rare, rare fighter for the American system, for our values.
[00:00:16]  And he's rare, unfortunately.
[00:00:17]  You would think the Republicans have a majority here or there, in this case the U.S. Senate.
[00:00:23]  And this is not to cast aspersion on his colleagues.
[00:00:28]  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.
[00:00:36]  There are three types of good people.
[00:00:39]  Those who fight, those who help the fighters, and those who do nothing.
[00:00:42]  Those who do nothing is the largest group, and those who help the fighters are very important, and he is a fighter.
[00:00:50]  So, Senator Ted Cruz of Texas, welcome to the Dennis Prager Show.
[00:00:55]  Well, Dennis, my friend, you are a fighter yourself, and it's an honor to be with you once again.
[00:01:01]  I take that very sincerely.
[00:01:04]  Thank you, sir.
[00:01:05]  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.
[00:01:16]  When was the last time, and I should know the answer, but I don't.
[00:01:23]  Do you know the answer?
[00:01:25]  When was the last time that there was a clear conservative majority on the Supreme Court?
[00:01:32]  I don't know that we've ever had a conservative majority on the Supreme Court, at least in modern times.
[00:01:38]  We have had a Republican majority for decades.
[00:01:42]  But one of the things the book goes through is that Republicans are terrible at nominating Supreme Court justices.
[00:01:52]  They get almost 100% of their picks right.
[00:01:55]  Republicans, we don't even bat 500. Many of the worst judicial activists in history were nominated by Republican presidents.
[00:02:04]  And the last chapter of the book, I traced the history of Supreme Court nominations going back to Dwight D. Eisenhower.
[00:02:13]  And if you look at Earl Warren, William Brennan, John Paul Stevens, David Souter, Harry Blackmun, the author of Roe vs.