Cruz will try to use Justice Scalia's death to vault himself ahead of Trump in South Carolina

Tonight's Republican debate should be interesting. I suspect that Ted Cruz will wrap himself in the mantle of Antonin Scalia, noting his (Cruz's) clerkship on the Supreme Court and his arguments before the Supreme Court as Texas Solicitor General.  Cruz will try to use Scalia's death to vault himself ahead of Trump in South Carolina. 

Some useful links on Cruz and the Supreme Court.

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/22/us/politics/a-history-for-senate-candidate-ted-cruz-and-supreme-court.html

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/01/12/opinion/the-brutalism-of-ted-cruz.html

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/01/21/us/politics/as-supreme-court-clerk-ted-cruz-made-death-penalty-his-cause.html