• Cruz objected to language his Democratic counterparts added noting that late Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsberg’s dying wish was “My most fervent wish is that I not be replaced until a new President is installed”.

• The liberal Justice died Friday, leaving a vacancy that if filled by a Conservative, could have sweeping and long lasting ramifications on several U.S policies and civil liberties.

• When Justice Scalia died in February of 2016, Cruz blocked then-President Obama’s pick, Judge Merrick Garland, arguing at the time that it was wrong for a Supreme Court nomination to move forward so close to a presidential election.

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