On the Supreme Court,Ted Cruz pretends to forget his own record [View all]

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https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/supreme-court-ted-cruz-pretends-forget-his-own-record-n1264955
Realistically, the odds of Democrats approving major judicial reforms aren't great. A group of Democrats unveiled a bill this week to increase the size of the U.S. Supreme Court from 9 justices to 13, but House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) told reporters she has "no plans" to bring the proposal to the floor.

The measure also received a rather tepid response from other Democratic lawmakers. In the House, the bill now has just 12 co-sponsors, and in the Senate, a companion bill was introduced by Sen. Ed Markey (D-Mass.), but it currently has zero co-sponsors.

Nevertheless, Republicans are pretending to be deeply concerned about the matter, leading Republican Sens. Marsha Blackburn (Tenn.), Ted Cruz (Texas), and Lindsey Graham (S.C.) to hold a press conference in front of the Supreme Court this morning. Much of the rhetoric was boilerplate -- there were several references to a "power grab" -- but Cruz went a little further than his GOP colleagues with this line:

Well, a couple of things.

First, when there was a GOP majority in the Senate, Republicans didn't have much of a need to "rig the game," because the Supreme Court was already conservative. Remember, at no point in Ted Cruz's lifetime has a majority of the high court been appointed by Democratic presidents.