HuffPo Tries to Rip Into Ted Cruz on Court-Packing, It Backfires Badly When He Finishes Them Off

As we reported earlier, Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) gave a little lesson at the steps of the Supreme Court about how Democrats were endangering the Supreme Court with their push to politicize and pack the court.

After Hugo Chavez took over Venezuela, he packed their Supreme Court.

What Democrats are trying to do now by packing the Supreme Court is fundamentally corrupt.https://t.co/XzWMZJCHMv pic.twitter.com/cQeUPuqAac

— Ted Cruz (@tedcruz) April 23, 2021

“Their first priority is to change the rules to stay in power,” Cruz explained. “They’re trying to add new senators to the Senate, so they keep control forever. They’re trying to change voting in America, so Democrats could never lose and they want to pack the U.S. Supreme Court with four, left wing radicals. This is an assault, fundamentally, on the independence of the judiciary. Franklin Delano Roosevelt tried this, nearly 100 years ago…His own party stopped him…[They said] it will threaten our fundamental freedoms.” Cruz said, unfortunately, today’s Democrats are a lot more radical and have no problem trying to do this.

My colleague Sister Toldjah wrote about how Democrats tried to attack him over this, with a law student trying to challenge Cruz shortly after his remarks, with Cruz destroying every Democratic talking point about court-packing which the student spouted.

Democrats have tried to push this Orwellian lie that they’re really ‘unpacking’ the Court if they pack it, because Republicans ‘packed’ the Court by filling vacancies. This turns the meaning of the term on its head. Court-packing has always meant to add seats, not to fill vacancies. But Democrats hope that, by changing the meaning of language, they can justify their power grab.

The Huffington Post then waded into the scrum, taking up the Democratic talking point and trying to “fact-check” Cruz. “Sen. Ted Cruz may have told his biggest lie yet with the claim that Republicans never engaged in court packing when they controlled the White House and Congress,” HuffPost tweeted. A demonstrable lie by the HuffPo, which they later deleted, after a massive backlash pointing out how they were wrong.

The HuffPo then posted basically the same video. but with “corrected” language on it. They just kept on digging.

Sen. Ted Cruz delivered a whopper on the courts. (Correction: An earlier version said that Cruz lied about court packing. The dishonesty lies in the claim that Republicans never "rigged the game.") pic.twitter.com/6JhLTmtVJj

— HuffPost (@HuffPost) April 23, 2021

No, HuffPo, filling vacancies or denying nominations is not “rigging” it, it’s proper Constitutional process. A president is not guaranteed that his nominees will be approved; the Senate does not have to approve a nominee.

Not only that, the HuffPo completely crossed the line into Democratic advocacy by terming Cruz a “master gaslighter.” Indeed, it’s the HuffPo doing the gaslighting here.

“HuffPost is apparently partaking in the new liberal trend to redefine words – they have erroneously conflated filling judicial vacancies with ‘court-packing’ and then based on that conflation, accused Sen. Cruz of gaslighting. It’s patently absurd and if anyone’s guilty of gaslighting, it’s the editors at HuffPost,” a Cruz spokesperson told Fox News.

Unbelievable. There is still no "whopper."

HuffPost is continuing to parrot left wing talking points.

Absolutely nothing was rigged by Republicans.

Presidents nominate judges. The Senate gives or withholds advice and consent. https://t.co/j2aQMpMzNs

— Steve Guest (@SteveGuest) April 23, 2021

These idiots keep digging lol https://t.co/5OGe1eHjX3

— Michael Duncan (@MichaelDuncan) April 23, 2021

What do we call gaslighting by accusing someone else of gaslighting? Is there a German word for that? It fits here. https://t.co/8eXWlbDQn3

— Doug Heye (@DougHeye) April 23, 2021

Still wrong. Nothing was rigged. Republicans won the elections needed to nominate and consent to judges. That was it. https://t.co/lpqu9mWXMl

— Stephen L. Miller (@redsteeze) April 23, 2021

"We changed the meaning of court packing but gaslighter Ted Cruz is refusing to comply!" https://t.co/ulOFZ8F1oc

— Eddie Zipperer (@EddieZipperer) April 23, 2021