Ted Cruz is not interested in serving on the Supreme Court.
“That is not a desire of my heart,” the Texas senator said in an interview Friday morning on WBAP 820 AM.
“I am committed to the fight of ensuring we have strong principled constitutionalists on the court, but I believe that I can do a great more good fighting across the political spectrum,” Cruz, who served as Texas’ solicitor general prior to being elected senator, said.
House Majority Whip Steve Scalise, R-La., suggested last month that Cruz could be picked as a replacement to the late Justice Antonin Scalia should Donald Trump become president. Cruz has since dropped his 2016 presidential bid, and Trump has moved to become the presumed nominee.
Texas Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick also suggested Trump appoint Cruz to the high court to bring together the GOP.
But Cruz also told CBS News in March that being on the Supreme Court is “not a job I’m interested in.”
“I have had several opportunities in the past to go to the bench, and I certainly deeply respect the job that justices do, but I think our country’s in crisis and I think we need a strong conservative president who will not appoint not just one, but two, three, four, five Supreme Court justices who are principled constitutionalists,” Cruz told host Chris Salcedo Friday.
Cruz will be in Dallas Sunday to speak at the Texas GOP convention. He announced this week he will run for a second Senate term in 2018.
