In an appearance on NBC’s “Meet the Press” this past Sunday, GOP presidential contender Donald Trump said that he would pick a replacement for recently deceased Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia that was “just like Justice Scalia.”
In the appearance, Trump stressed that it was difficult to predict just how Supreme Court justices would turn out, but that he was dedicated to appointing someone like the late Justice Scalia to the court.
“Look, we need great intellect. We need, I think absolutely conservative,” Trump said. “But the real — I think the real plan forward would be somebody just like Justice Scalia.”
Trump also accused rivals Texas Sen. Ted Cruz and former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush of being responsible for Chief Justice John Roberts, who was nominated as a conservative but upheld the Affordable Care Act.