Ted Cruz believes that not one Republican candidate, including him self will win the 1,237 delegates necessary. He believes that the GOP is heading toward a contested convention, which is is a situation in which no single candidate has secured a majority of overall delegates just using the pledged delegates from popular vote, after the first vote for a political party's presidential candidate at its national nominating convention. Trump, however, completely disagrees. He believes that he is going to the Convention as a winner.

I think that both candidates have reasonable evidence. It would seem very difficult for one candidate to get all the delegates that they need in the time allotted. But on the other hand they have over three months until the National Convention.

In class we watched a Ted talk about how Candidates get delegates with them. They go to states and hold rallies and speeches to try and gain the support of the delegates. This also relates to class because we discussed the Winner- Takes all system which grants it all to the candidate who gets all 1237 delegates first.

This year on April 12^th, it is Equal Pay Day. It is the day that, if you are a woman your earnings have caught up with what men were paid the previous year. Although the pay gap is getting smaller, women are still paid 21% less that what men are getting. In 1964, women were paid 59% of hat men were paid. In 2014 that number increased to 79%. If this current trend continues equal pay will not be reached until 2059. Age, race, education level, and where you live could also add time onto that. A big factor in earnings is also race, Hispanic women are paid 54% of what white men are paid. Age also factors in, women the ages 55-64 are paid 76% of what men that age make.

I think that equal pay should not even a problem. The fact that one man and one woman can do the exact same job and one is making less because of their gender in absurd. Not only is it unfair the is unreasonable and there is no reasoning behind it. We are not back in the old ages when women only cook, clean, and take care of their children, women can do the exact same thing as men and sometimes better.

This relates to class because we have been discussing court cases that involve things related to this topic. This also could be considered harsh work environment because it is unfair treatment. Also we have discussed discrimination because this is discrimination at its finest. Paying two people who are doing the exact same thing and giving them two different earning is unfair and crewel. 

In this article, it discusses President Obama making his case for his SCOTUS nominee. Supreme Court nominee Merrick Garland, taught at Chicago Law school for ten years.  Obama argued that without legitimate concerns about Garland's record, Republicans were refusing his nomination solely on political grounds.  It was argued that he would not bring any diversity to the court Obama continued to say that he did not set out to find a connate of a certain demographic. Then he fired back with, "At no point did I say, 'Oh, I need a black lesbian from Skokie,"  "Yeah he's a white guy, but he's a really outstanding jurist. Sorry, I think that's important." Obama launched an aggressive campaign on Republicans to take up Garland's nomination, because he thinks that he is qualified to server in the highest court in the land.

I completely agree with Obama and think it is unfair that the Republicans are not even giving Garland a chance. I believe that he is a extraordinary jurist, why else would he have been chosen? I also believe that the Republicans have not given a valid argument to why they do not want him serving as a Justice. Just like Obama said, "No one has plausibly made an argument that this is not the kind of person we'd want on the Supreme Court. The question then becomes: Why is it so hard for the guy just to get a hearing and a vote?"

This relates to class content because we have been talking about the things that go on in the Supreme court. We have discussed what goes into selecting Judges, one's party affiliation plays a part. Because the ones that have to approve the nominee are mostly Republican, obviously, they would want a Republican nominee. But with a Democratic President he, obviously, would pick a Democratic nominee. Which seems to be the problem here, the Senate who is trying to wait it out until the next president is elected, so that President will hopefully choose a Republican nominee.