Ted Cruz (Republican from Texas) criticized Democrats for filibustering Republican nominees black and Hispanic judges in the past.
Cruz made his blistering remarks during Supreme Court nominee Ketanji Brown Jackson’s confirmation hearings.
Biden pledged to consider only black women for the Supreme Court seat that will replace Justice Stephen Breyer.
Ted Cruz criticizes Democrats’ treatment of Republican Supreme Court Nominees.pic.twitter.com/WVfjrKUMGT
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Cruz Gives History Lesson
Cruz began by saying, “The senior Democrats in this committee happily filibustered Judge Janice Rogers Brown, the very qualified African American woman nominated to the D.C. Circuit.”
“And they did so precisely because they wanted to prevent Judge Brown from becoming Justice Brown, the first African American woman. Joe Biden was among the Democrats the first African American woman nominated to the D.C. Circuit,” the senator claimed.
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In 2003, Democrats originally blocked Rogers Brown’s confirmation to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, saying her supposed ideological stances were too “out of the legal mainstream” for the D.C. district court.
Brown was again nominated, and his confirmation by 56 votes to 43 was two years later.
Her journey to the Supreme Court would end there, after then-Senator Joe Biden threatened on “Face the Nation” that Brown would be filibustered if President George W. Bush nominated her for the Supreme Court.
Cruz then cited Democrats’ 2003 filibuster over the nomination of Miguel Estrada at the U.S. Court of Appeals. Estrada,Bush nominated Honduran immigrants as his nominee.
The Washington Times reported at the time, “In one memo to Sen. Richard J. Durbin of Illinois obtained by The Washington Times, Washington lawyer Miguel A. Estrada is singled out as ‘especially dangerous’ because “he has a minimal paper trail, he is Latino, and the White House seems to be grooming him for a Supreme Court appointment.”
Estrada eventually withdrew his nomination after eight months of Democrats using the “Jim Crow filibuster.”
.@SenTedCruz“If you are Hispanic/African American and try to break with Democrats’ political norms, they can crush you. They will make you look bad, they may slander your character, and they might filibuster or impeach you. It is not about race. However, it is about substance and issues.” pic.twitter.com/76gmt65zod
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Cruz: ‘They will crush you’
Cruz said of these Democrat filibusters of the past on Monday, “They were explicitly racial, if you are Hispanic or African American and you dare depart from their political orthodoxy, they will crush you, they will attack you, they will slander you, they will filibuster you.”
“So this is not about race,” Cruz said.