Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX) argued it should be “illegal” for President Joe Biden to say he will follow through on his campaign promise to nominate an African-American woman to the Supreme Court.

In an interview on Fox News Sunday, anchor Bill Hemmer noted how the senator has derided Biden’s pledge as “offensive” and “insulting” to Americans. Asked if he’s an automatic “No” vote on whoever Biden nominates, Cruz answered by claiming “Democrats today believe in racial discrimination” and “what the president said is that only African American women are eligible for this slot, that 94 percent of Americans are ineligible.”

Cruz continued:

I think our country has such a troubled history on race, we ought to move past discriminating based on race. The way Biden ought to do it is to say, I’m going to look for the best justice, interview a lot of people. And if he happened to nominate a justice who was an African American woman, great. But, you know what, if Fox News put a posting, we’re looking for a new host for Fox News Sunday and we will only hire an African American woman or an Hispanic man or a Native American woman, that would be illegal. Nobody else can do what Joe Biden did. And there’s a reason for that. Racial discrimination is wrong.

The Texas senator went on to say he will consider Biden’s nominee based on their record, so Hemmer took that to mean there is “a window of consideration” from Cruz on how he’ll vote.

Cruz’s remarks echo the common criticism from Biden’s detractors who say his pledge to replace outgoing Justice Stephen Breyer with a black woman is essentially affirmative action. This comes after Cruz laughably suggested Biden would nominate Vice President Kamala Harris for the job as a way to get rid of her.

Watch above (start at 7:00), via Fox News Sunday.

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