Ted Cruz actually said...

"The position to which you have been nominated is extraordinarily important, and that is why the Senate is given the responsibility for advice and consent under the Constitution because the job matters..."

"The Supreme Court became a policymaking body rather than a merely judicial body."

"In doing so, she disregarded the plain language of the statute that explicitly said the Secretary had, quote, 'sole and unreviewable discretion' to set the designation at any time."

"As Justice Thomas observed in that hearing, what happened there was, to use his words, 'a high-tech lynching.'"