History Professor SHUTS DOWN TED CRUZ lies about the appointing of a Supreme Court Justice (Facts are against Cruz)

http://www.addictinginfo.org/2016/02/17/history-professor-shuts-down-ted-cruzs-lies-about-supreme-court-history-with-facts/

Ted Cruz is having a rough week, and now he just received a failing grade from a history professor.

Ever since Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia passed away on Saturday, Cruz has peddled the same lie over and over that “it has been 80 years since a Supreme Court vacancy was nominated and confirmed in an election year. There is a long tradition that you don’t do this in an election year.”

It’s an obvious attempt by Cruz and Republicans to keep President Obama from nominating a qualified individual that Senate Republicans would have to consider in confirmation hearings.

As a former clerk for the Supreme Court, you would think that Ted Cruz would know the history of the high court, but he clearly doesn’t make the grade.

And history professor Mark Byrnes at Wofford College in Spartanburg, South Carolina agrees.

In an article written for History News Network, Byrnes mercilessly fact-checked Cruz’ claim suggesting that it’s an American tradition that the Senate does not confirm judicial nominees during an election year.

Since Ted Cruz is always singing the praises of the Founding Fathers, Byrnes began by revealing that John Adams and George Washington both nominated Supreme Court Justices during their final months in office.

According to Byrnes,

In the final year of his presidency, George Washington had two nominations to the Supreme Court approved by the Senate. It was an election year and he was not running for reelection. It doesn’t get more “original intent” than that.