In and Op-Ed for the Wall Street Journal titled "The Scalia Seat: Let the People Speak"
"Republicans view things very differently. We believe the Constitution has a fixed meaning and a judge’s task is limited—to discover what that meaning is, not to make it up." Ted Cruz
But wait the Constitution has a fixed meaning by which Supreme Court Justices are chosen.
From Article III, Section 2
"He shall have Power, by and with the Advice and Consent of the Senate, to make Treaties, provided two thirds of the Senators present concur; and he shall nominate, and by and with the Advice and Consent of the Senate, shall appoint Ambassadors, other public Ministers and Consuls, Judges of the supreme Court, and all other Officers of the United States, whose Appointments are not herein otherwise provided for, and which shall be established by Law: but the Congress may by Law vest the Appointment of such inferior Officers, as they think proper, in the President alone, in the Courts of Law, or in the Heads of Departments."
There is nothing in the Constitution that says appointments to the Supreme Court shall wait until the next election for the people to decide. Either you are a strict Constitutionalist or not. All candidates, especially strict Consitutionalist’s should instead be insisting that the President and Senate be getting this done, because to do otherwise would be to make a defacto change to Article III without amending the Constitution. It would also change the President’s term to three years from the four dictated by the Constitution. If that isn’t making things up I do not know what that phrase means.
Now if I was President, I would give them a month to decide to do their jobs and on April 1 I would determine this is an extraordinary occasion and convene the Senate for 2 AM sessions until they decide to get themselves to work. Of course if I was president I probably be doing this to both houses on a regular basis until they took the people’s business seriously.