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Ted Cruz: The Democrats in the Senate repeatedly stopped qualified, excellent nominees to the court, including Peter Keisler…

On the recordJuly 9, 2013
The Democrats in the Senate repeatedly stopped qualified, excellent nominees to the court, including Peter Keisler, including, I think most indefensibly, Miguel Estrada, where a Democratic staffer put in a memo that the reason to stop Miguel Estrada, one of the top Supreme Court advocates in the country, was 'because he is Latino.'
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Ted Cruz
Republican · Texas

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Cruz criticizes Democrats for blocking qualified nominees based on ethnicity.

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