When his White House ambitions failed, Lindsey Graham endorsed Ted Cruz over now President-elect Donald Trump. | AP Photo Graham: Cruz should be on Supreme Court shortlist

South Carolina Sen. Lindsey Graham, a former presidential primary foe of Ted Cruz who once joked about the Texas senator’s murder, now says he should be considered for a seat on the nation’s highest court.

“I would put Ted Cruz on that list. I would suggest that President Trump look within the Senate,” Graham told reporters at a Veterans Day event in Greenville, South Carolina. “There is some talent there. There is no stronger constitutional conservative than Ted Cruz.”


The floating of Cruz, who once served as a Supreme Court clerk, seems to complete Graham’s evolution when it comes to the firebrand senator who has irked many Senate Republicans.

“If you killed Ted Cruz on the floor of the Senate, and the trial was in the Senate, nobody would convict you,” Graham joked in February.

When his White House ambitions failed, Graham endorsed Cruz over now President-elect Donald Trump. But the South Carolinian conceded that Cruz was not his “first choice.”