Ted Cruz Gets Called Out By Debate Moderator For Making Up Facts About The Supreme Court

http://thinkprogress.org/politics/2016/02/13/3749502/ted-cruz-gets-called-out-by-debate-moderator-for-making-up-facts-about-the-supreme-court/
"Texas Sen. Ted Cruz (R) declared that President Obama should not nominate a successor this year and that the decision should be left for the next president. “We have 80 years of precedent of not confirming Supreme Court Justices in an election year,” he said. CBS’ John Dickerson then pressed Cruz on whether anyone has been confirmed in an election year, pointing to current Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy’s confirmation in 1988. Cruz appeared confused."