Cruz: ‘I do not intend to support legalization’ of undocumented immigrants

“This week in response to both of these decisions, I have called for another constitutional amendment-this one that would make members of the Supreme Court subject to periodic judicial retention elections”, said Cruz.

On the eve of the fifth Republican presidential debate in Las Vegas, Democratic National Committee Chairwoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz was asked on a conference call whether she fears Rubio’s appeal with millennial voters. And for the following reason. And in Florida, you have to wait a couple days when you get your permit. While Clinton (like majorities of young voters) favors these ideas, Rubio opposes a wage hike, vows to reverse Obama’s move to open diplomatic relations with Cuba and said in August he’d enforce anti-marijuana federal laws in states that have legalized pot, like Colorado and Washington.

CHUCK TODD: But it’s done now.

“There’s a difference between charity and taxation and, sure, I have a great deal of sympathy and I have helped through our church with helping refugees – that’s charity and something you give voluntarily. But the only budget he’s ever voted for in his time in the Senate is a budget that cut defense spending by more than Barack Obama proposes we cut it”, Mr. Rubio said on NBC’s “Meet the Press”. ‘That belongs at the state and local level’.

While Rubio may believe that voters would want to ban same-sex laws in some states, most Americans believe same-sex marriage should stay as it is.

“And that’s why, if you want to change the definition of marriage, which is what this argument is about, it’s not about discrimination, it is about the definition of a very specific traditional and age old institution”.

While he declined to endorse a constitutional amendment that would overturn Obergefell (“that would be conceding that the current Constitution is somehow wrong and needs to be fixed”), Rubio said each state should be allowed their own definition of marriage.

“It is the current law”. I don’t believe any case law is settled law.

Writing at Think Progress, Judd Legum notes that while it’s likely that the next president will appoint multiple justices, traditionally justices respect the rulings of their predecessors. On an issue like same-sex marriage, it’s a hard balance to strike-maybe an impossible one, particularly if you’ve got one eye on the general election, where a litmus test for overturning marriage equality isn’t going to play well at all. Under the new system, the NSA will have to obtain a court order to retrieve the records from private phone companies, who tend to retain them for roughly 18 months. Instead, he threatened to render the decision on gay marriage ineffectual by using his presidential powers to appoint only conservative justices to the bench who would supposedly interpret the ruling differently.