Ted Cruz on Supreme Court: The justices ‘put on an Obama jersey’

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    Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, argued on NBC’s “Meet the Press” that members of the Supreme Court “put on an Obama jersey” by voting to uphold the Affordable Care Act and strike down restrictions on same-sex marriage.

    “It is the justices who have politicized the Court,” claimed the Republican presidential contender, who proposed a Constitutional amendment for periodic judicial retention elections as a way of reducing what he sees as the politicization of the judicial branch.

    When asked if this would actually polarize the Court further, he pushed back and said, “Look, we are polarized. And they [the justices] have seized political issues. They have become, effectively, politicians. And that’s wrong.”

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