Ted Cruz: I’m Still In It For The SCOTUS Nomination

I called this earlier today when Sessions got the AG job. The Hill reports:

Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) is not ruling out the possibility of filling the Supreme Court’s open seat. Asked Friday at a National Lawyers Convention event whether he’d accept a high court nomination, Cruz responded: “What I will say is that history is long and can take unexpected paths.”

“I think it is absolutely vital that that seat and every other seat that comes vacant on the court be filled principle constitutionalists who will be faithful to the law and will check their own policy preferences at the door,” he added.

Cruz congratulated his fried and colleague Friday, saying Sessions will make an “extraordinary” attorney general. “He is a committed and deeply principled conservative and if those who serve in this administration have even the fraction of his integrity and his commitment to principle, we are going to see an administration that does remarkable things for the people of this country,” he said.