Cruz’s Harvard Prof: Ted Wrong Saying No Precedent for Confirming SCOTUS Pick

TRIBE: "They have pretended, I think Ted Cruz said this is historic precedent. In the last 80 years he claimed, this is the rule, when a president in the last year of his term is asked to fill a vacancy, the Senate says we won’t consider anyone. That’s just not true. In the last 104 years, I haven't gone back before 1912, but in the last 104 years, six times this has occurred, where there was a vacancy created by a resignation or a death. In the last year of the president’s term, and all six times, the president nominated someone, and that person was confirmed ... Ronald Reagan was the most recent, he got Kennedy confirmed in something like three months. So the Republicans are just making up history."