Sen. Ted Cruz brewed new dissent against President Joe Biden's Supreme Court nominee, Ketanji Brown Jackson, joking that he became 'highly suspect' of her when she turned down his Cuban coffee offering.
Sen. Ted Cruz brewed new dissent against President Joe Biden's Supreme Court nominee, Ketanji Brown Jackson, joking that he became"highly suspect" of her when she turned down his Cuban coffee offering.
The Texas lawmaker teased the latest Supreme Court nominee on his podcast Verdict with Ted Cruz on Thursday, just days after he met Jackson in his office as she made her rounds across the U.S. Capitol building ahead of her hearings before the Senate Judiciary Committee later this month. "I'll tell you a couple of interesting moments from meeting in my office," Cruz said to co-host Michael Knowles."When she was there, I offered her and everyone there some Cuban coffee. As a Cuban American, sometimes, when people come to my office, we make Cuban coffee, and she turned down the Cuban Coffee.""Which, I got to say, anyone that turns down coffee I'm highly suspect of," Cruz said, adding,"I enjoyed the coffee.
Despite his insistence on playing somewhat tongue-in-cheek, Cruz has a record of opposition to Jackson, as he and Sen. John Cornyn voted against confirming her when she went before the Senate last year for an appointment to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit."The people of Texas deserve a rigorous investigation of Judge Jackson’s nomination," Cruz said in a statement last month.
Cruz and Cornyn both sit on the Senate Judiciary Committee, which is tasked with vetting Jackson's nomination in Congress ahead of a full Senate vote slated to happen in the weeks after her hearings commence on March 21.