No Republican will be hit as hard by the past week's SCOTUS rulings as Ted Cruz. I recommend everyone read his article in the current National Review, which includes the following:
Not only are the Court’s opinions untethered to reason and logic, they
are also alien to our constitutional system of limited and divided
government. By redefining the meaning of common words, and redesigning
the most basic human institutions, this Court has crossed from the realm
of activism into the arena of oligarchy.
Senator Cruz graduated CUM LAUDE from Princeton, with a B.A. in Public Policy. At Princeton, he participated on theAmerican
Whig-Cliosophic Debate Panel, winning both the 1992 U.S. National Debating
Championship and the 1992 North American Debating Championship. He was named U.S. National Speaker of the
Year. He was part of a pair representing
Harvard Law School at the 1995 World Debating Championship, making it to the
semi-finals. Princeton's debate team
later named their annual novice championship after Cruz.
His senior thesis at Princeton was on the separation of powers -"Clipping the Wings of Angels" argues that our founders intended the Constitution to protect the rights of their state constituents, that the last two items in the Bill of Rights provide an explicit stop against an all-powerful federal government.
At Harvard Law, he graduated magna cum laude. He was a primary editor of the Harvard Law Review & the executive editor of the Harvard Journal of Law & Public Policy, as well as a founding editor of the Harvard Latino Law Review. Small wonder that one of his professors – no less than Alan Dershowitz, says, "Cruz was off-the-charts brilliant."
Ted Cruz has always considered upholding his interpretation of the Constitution as core to his practice of law & his whole reason for entering politics.
If you do not understand all of the above, you cannot begin to understand what makes Ted run.
Knowing all this, what surprises me is that Ted was totally unfazed by the Supreme Court's Citizen's United ruling, that he didn't consider equating money with the free speech of our citizenry, where corporations were given every right of a citizen without a single similar responsibility. That ruling he considered right & proper. Fascinating.
His senior thesis at Princeton was on the separation of powers -"Clipping the Wings of Angels" argues that our founders intended the Constitution to protect the rights of their state constituents, that the last two items in the Bill of Rights provide an explicit stop against an all-powerful federal government.
At Harvard Law, he graduated magna cum laude. He was a primary editor of the Harvard Law Review & the executive editor of the Harvard Journal of Law & Public Policy, as well as a founding editor of the Harvard Latino Law Review. Small wonder that one of his professors – no less than Alan Dershowitz, says, "Cruz was off-the-charts brilliant."
Ted Cruz has always considered upholding his interpretation of the Constitution as core to his practice of law & his whole reason for entering politics.
If you do not understand all of the above, you cannot begin to understand what makes Ted run.
Knowing all this, what surprises me is that Ted was totally unfazed by the Supreme Court's Citizen's United ruling, that he didn't consider equating money with the free speech of our citizenry, where corporations were given every right of a citizen without a single similar responsibility. That ruling he considered right & proper. Fascinating.
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