Ted Cruz Says Republicans Didn’t Try to ‘Rig the Game’ by Changing the Supreme Court. He’s Ignoring 2016 – By Aaron Keller (Law and Crime) / April 22 2021
Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas), who in late 2016 suggested Senate Republicans should indefinitely leave the Supreme Court with only eight justices if Hillary Clinton were to win the presidency, on Thursday said Republicans never tried to “rig the game” by altering the high court’s makeup.
Cruz made the comments flanked by Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) on the front steps of the Supreme Court building.
Cruz said Democrats were trying to pack the court with “four left-wing radicals” by adding Washington, D.C. as a 51st state and by considering expanding the number of justices on the court. He accused Democrats of being “fundamentally corrupt,” of trying to “change the rules to stay in power,” and of failing to “believe in Democracy.” He also suggested they failed to “convince the voters” their “ideas are right.”
Democrats won control of the White House, the House of Representatives, and the Senate in 2020.
