Bolton: ‘Brilliant Lawyer’ Cruz Will Make Scalia Replacement and Constitution an Issue
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Bolton added that Scalia “is just about the last of the really visible, articulate, clearly conservative justices ever to get through the Senate.” He later characterized Scalia as an “intellectual giant.”
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He further predicted that Scalia’s death would “have a profound impact on the presidential election, as it should. I’m willing to be my dollar right now that nobody gets confirmed this year.”
Bolton concluded, “I think it’s certainly going to be an issue in the general election. I think debating first principles is what elections should be about. I think somebody like Ted Cruz on the Republican side, a brilliant lawyer himself, obviously head and shoulders above the others, will make it an issue. Hillary Clinton a lawyer on her side, will be perfectly prepared to make it an issue as well. And I think that’s good. There’s nothing more important than the Constitution to debate.”
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