Trump Floats Cruz for Supreme Court in Rally Joke

Donald Trump said he would choose Sen. Ted Cruz for the Supreme Court if a vacancy arose, joking at a Lubbock rally that senators from both parties would approve the Texas Republican because they wanted him out of the Senate. The remarks described a hypothetical, not a formal nomination. Trump made the comments at a rally in Lubbock, Texas, on October 27. He presented Cruz as an answer to the difficulty of securing bipartisan Senate support for Supreme Court nominees, saying Democrats and Republicans alike would vote for Cruz to remove him from the Senate. Trump also praised Cruz as a brilliant lawyer and said he would do a good job on the court. Cruz, who was at the rally, laughed and nodded as Trump spoke, according to accounts of the event. The senator has previously said he does not want to be a judge. In an account at a Wall Street Journal event, Cruz said Trump had seriously discussed each of the three Supreme Court vacancies during his first term. Cruz said he declined each time because he wanted to remain in political life. The remarks revive a possibility Trump has discussed before, but they do not establish that he intends to nominate Cruz. A Supreme Court...