Ted Cruz said "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.'" @ PoliticalQuotes.com

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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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