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The Guardian - US
The Guardian - US
Martin Pengelly in New York

Cruz: Biden promise to put Black woman on supreme court is racial discrimination

Republican senator from Texas Ted Cruz walks near the Senate subway on Capitol Hill, on 16 February 2022.
Texas Republican senator Ted Cruz. Photograph: Michael Reynolds/EPA

The Republican senator Ted Cruz complained on Sunday that Joe Biden’s promise to nominate a Black woman to the supreme court was an instance of racial discrimination – but also claimed the GOP would not drag the eventual nominee “into the gutter” in confirmation hearings.

“Democrats today believe in racial discrimination,” Cruz told Fox News Sunday. “They’re committed to it as a political proposition. I think it is wrong to stand up and say, ‘We’re going to discriminate.’”

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