This is a great reason, I believe, that if the Republican leadership blocks the path to the presidency for Senator Cruz, that the price they must pay for their Republican liberal candidate, if he wins, is to name Senator Cruz to the Supreme Court.
Their motive for doing so would be to remove him as a gadfly in the senate, but by having a conservative bloc in the SCOTUS of 6-3, conservatism would win big.
We certainly need men like him in positions of power.