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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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