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Jeb Bush: Chief Justice John Roberts Is Doing ‘A Good Job’ [VIDEO]

Steve Guest Media Reporter
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Jeb Bush insisted that Chief Justice John Roberts was doing “a good job.”

Bush, appearing on the main stage during the GOP debate on CNN Wednesday, suggested “going forward, what we need to do is to have someone that has a long-standing set of rulings that consistently makes it clear that he is focused, exclusively on upholding the constitution of the United States, that they won’t try to use the bench as a means by which to legislate.”

Jeb Bush: Well first of all, as I said he supported John Roberts, he supported him publicly. So you can rewrite history I guess Ted, but the simple fact is, you supported him because he had all the criteria that you would have thought would have made a great justice. And I think he is doing a good job. But the simple fact is going forward, what we need to do is to have someone that has a long-standing set of rulings that consistently makes it clear that he is focused, exclusively on upholding the constitution of the United States, that they won’t try to use the bench as a means by which to legislate. And that’s what we should do. And I hope I’ll be working with members of the United States Senate to fight hard for the passage of people that have that kind of qualification.

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