{"id":6711,"date":"2014-10-07T16:22:41","date_gmt":"2014-10-07T16:22:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=6711"},"modified":"2014-10-07T16:22:41","modified_gmt":"2014-10-07T16:22:41","slug":"cruz-now-favors-activist-federal-government","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=6711","title":{"rendered":"Cruz now favors activist federal government"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Ted Cruz keeps giving me — and others — so much grist for commentary.<\/p>\n

The freshman Texas Republican U.S. senator now has this doozy of an idea. Let’s amend the U.S. Constitution to prevent states from overturning bans on same-sex marriage.<\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.texastribune.org\/2014\/10\/06\/cruz-amend-us-constitution-preserve-marriage-bans\/<\/p>\n

This comes from a tea party darling, someone who’s railed time and again during his still-brief time in the Senate over federal government overreach into states’ business.<\/p>\n

Not so, however, when it comes to one more issue that now needs to become part of the federal Constitution.<\/p>\n

Oh, Ted. Keep delivering these hits. Please.<\/p>\n

Cruz got angry at the U.S. Supreme Court over its refusal to hear some state cases involving the overturning of bans on gay marriage. He called it a matter of gross judicial activism. Indeed, as\u00a0a learned friend of mine noted, the high court exercised “judicial restraint” in refusing to hear these cases.<\/p>\n

That won’t deter the runaway freight train aka Ted Cruz.<\/p>\n

He’s going to try to get Congress to approve a constitutional amendment that places federal authority over state authority.<\/p>\n

I swear I understood Cruz was a champion of states’ rights. What happened?<\/p>\n

Oh, I almost forgot.\u00a0Cruz wants to run for president in 2016 and he’s got to appease that right-wing GOP “base.”<\/p>\n\n

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Ted Cruz keeps giving me — and others — so much grist for commentary. The freshman Texas Republican U.S. senator now has this doozy of an idea. Let’s amend the U.S. Constitution to prevent states from overturning bans on same-sex marriage. http:\/\/www.texastribune.org\/2014\/10\/06\/cruz-amend-us-constitution-preserve-marriage-bans\/ This comes from a tea party darling, someone who’s railed time and again … Continue reading Cruz now favors activist federal government<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,14,18],"tags":[2597,2603,4088,4537,5043],"class_list":["post-6711","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-news","category-political-news","category-state-news","tag-judicial-activism","tag-judicial-restraint","tag-same-sex-marriage","tag-ted-cruz","tag-us-constitution"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6711","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6711"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6711\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6711"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6711"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6711"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}