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No Justice

Cruz Suggests Leaving Vacancy on Supreme Court

Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Tex., speaks in Cleveland. Cruz is raising the possibility that Republicans would decline to fill the Supreme Court’s vacancy if Democrat Hillary Clinton
is elected president.

                                                                                                                                                                                                 (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

MARY JALONICK                  replace the late Justice     sue, there is long historical  gram that “the mechan-         choosing the next presi-
Associated Press               Antonin Scalia, who died in  precedent for a Supreme        ics works about the same”      dent would have the final
WASHINGTON (AP) — Texas        February.                    Court with fewer justices,     with a 4-4 split on the court  say on the vacancy.
Sen. Ted Cruz is raising the   Arizona Sen. John McCain     just recently Justice (Ste-    as they do with the normal     Cruz said the best way to
possibility that Republicans   made a similar assertion     phen) Breyer observed that     5-4.                           ensure conservatives are
would decline to fill the Su-  earlier this month.          the vacancy is not impact-     President Obama nominat-       nominated to the court is
preme Court’s vacancy if       Speaking to reporters while  ing the ability of the court   ed Judge Merrick Garland       to put a Republican in the
Democrat Hillary Clinton is    campaigning for Republi-     to do its job, that’s a de-    for Scalia’s seat in March,    White House and keep the
elected president.             cans on Wednesday, Cruz      bate that we are going to      but Senate Republicans,        GOP in control of the Sen-
Cruz is the second Repub-      was asked about Supreme      have,” Cruz said, in a quote   led by Majority Leader         ate.
lican to suggest that the      Court vacancies.             later provided by his office.  Mitch McConnell, declined
GOP will simply block any      “There will be plenty of     Breyer said this week on MS-   to even hold hearings as            Continued on page 4
Democratic nominee to          time for debate on that is-  NBC’s “Morning Joe” pro-       they insisted the voters