Ted Cruz’s dangerous and offensive new threat

Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX), architect of the 2013 government shutdown, told reporters in Colorado on Wednesday that he may be prepared to shut down all confirmations to the Supreme Court of the United States.

As the Washington Post’s Dave Weigel reports, Cruz said that there is “certainly long historical precedent for a Supreme Court with fewer justices,” in response to a question about whether a Republican-controlled Senate should refuse to confirm anyone nominated by a President Hillary Clinton.

Cruz’s implicit threat echoes Sen. John McCain’s (R-AZ) statement earlier this month, when he told a radio host that Republicans “will be united against any Supreme Court nominee that Hillary Clinton, if she were president, would put up.”...
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