“She should not be launching attacks at any presidential candidate,” said Cruz, who also criticized Trump as a competitor for the Republican nomination. “And Justice Ginsburg attacking Donald Trump was every bit as inappropriate as Barack Obama, during the State of the Union, falsely maligning the justices of the Supreme Court.”
Obama’s comments at that 2010 speech—saying the decision in Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission would “open the floodgates for special interests” in elections—prompted Justice Samuel A. Alito Jr. to shake his head and say “not true.”
“It is yet another manifestation of this Supreme Court becoming more and more political,” Cruz said. “As unelected judges seize public policy issues that the constitution gives to elected legislatures, we see the Democratic authority of the people undermined.
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