A FEW FACTS ABOUT TED CRUZ:
1. Ted Cruz set a few records as being Texas Solicitor General.
He was the first Hispanic S.G. of Texas. He was also the youngest
person to become the solicitor general in the U.S. (via ABC News)
He was the first Hispanic S.G. of Texas. He was also the youngest
person to become the solicitor general in the U.S. (via ABC News)
2. Cruz argued 9 cases in front of the U.S. Supreme Court -more
times than any practicing lawyer in Texas or any current member
of Congress. (via ABC News)
times than any practicing lawyer in Texas or any current member
of Congress. (via ABC News)
3. Running for the Senate was his first political campaign. His
opponent spent $20 million of his own money, but Cruz pulled off
the upset.
opponent spent $20 million of his own money, but Cruz pulled off
the upset.
4. Ted Cruz was a law clerk in 1996 for then Chief Justice of theWilliam Rehnquist. He was also the first Hispanic to be a law
clerk for a SCOTUS justice. (via NBC news)
clerk for a SCOTUS justice. (via NBC news)
5. Cruz earned 2 degrees from two Princeton & Harvard (B.A. in
Public Trust and a Juris (law) Doctor degree. (via ABC News)
Public Trust and a Juris (law) Doctor degree. (via ABC News)
6. Ted Cruz was born in Canada. His father was born in Cuba & his mother was born in Delaware. Because his mother was born
in the U.S., that makes him a U.S. citizen. He held dual citizenship
in the U.S. & Canada until he revoked his Canadian citizenship in
2014.
7. He was a Law Professor before becoming a Senator, and he was
also an Adjunct Law Professor. From 2004 - 2009, Cruz taught U.S.
Supreme Court Litigation at the University of Texas.
also an Adjunct Law Professor. From 2004 - 2009, Cruz taught U.S.
Supreme Court Litigation at the University of Texas.
8. Ted won a Debate National Championship, and along with his
classmate, David Panton, he won the American Parliamentary Debate
Association national championship while at Princeton. Cruz was also
named "Speaker of the Year" there.
classmate, David Panton, he won the American Parliamentary Debate
Association national championship while at Princeton. Cruz was also
named "Speaker of the Year" there.
Pundits in washington simply cannot decide about Ted Cruz. Does the Texas senator’s demagoguery more resemble that of Joe McCarthy (the New Yorker), or Father Charles Coughlin (MSNBC)? Was his fight to defund Obamacare a political version of General Custer’s last stand, or was it General Pickett’s charge (separate columns, both in the Washington Post)? Will Cruz hold the country hostage like the Taliban (the Daily Beast) or remake his party in his image like Vladimir Lenin (the Atlantic)? Should we imagine him as Don Quixote, the clueless would-be knight tilting at windmills (the New York Times), or as the Stay-Puft Marshmallow Man, the 10-story minion of evil from the 1984 filmGhostbusters (the Guardian)?
In fairness, the capital’s scriveners are used to one-dimensional characters and ready-made narratives, and Ted Cruz is a tough man to peg. He was born in bashful Canada, but raised in cocksure Texas. He drank from the gilded chalice of the Ivy League, but then spat out its bitter orthodoxy. He’s the thinking man’s Tea Partier, and the Tea Partier’s thinking man. He tromps through the country’s highest deliberative body in black cowboy boots and tosses off words like “Rawlsian” in a soft Southern drawl. He’s cool and unflappable under pressure, yet ambitious and—depending on your view—dangerous. “I think he is the most talented and fearless Republican politician I’ve seen in the last 30 years,” pronounced that shiny, hairless spheroid James Carville on television back in May. “I further think that he’s going to run for president and he’s going to create something.”
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