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Quote:Once upon a time, when he was but a mere solicitor general for the state of Texas, Ted Cruz helped write a 76-page legal brief defending the Lone Star State’s ban on the sale of sex toys. While his argument was ultimately shot down by an appellate court, the brief resurfaced Wednesday, confronting Americans with an unfortunate juxtaposition of mental images. Mother Jones got its hands on the 2007 brief for the case, in which Cruz was tasked with defending a state law banning the sale and advertisement of sex toys—or “obscene devices,” as he called them—an offense then punishable by up to two years in jail.
In its brief to the U.S. Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals, Cruz and his team argued that the plaintiffs challenging the law, a group of online retailers and Austin stores that sold sex toys, were not protected under the 14th Amendment’s right to privacy. In fact, he continued, banning obscene devices was in the public interest, and the government should be granted “police powers” for the purposes of “discouraging prurient interests in sexual gratification, combating the commercial sale of sex, and protecting minors.” Furthermore, using “obscene devices,” the state argued, was akin to “hiring a willing prostitute or engaging in consensual bigamy.””
Ted Cruz Doesn’t Believe You Have the Right to Masturbate | Vanity Fair
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Quote:Former Republican presidential candidate Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) reportedly said during the 2016 campaign that there was "something fundamentally wrong" with evangelical Christians who supported then-candidate Donald Trump. “If you’re a faithful person, if you believe that Jesus Christ died for your sins, emerged from the grave three days later and gives eternal life, and you’re supporting Donald Trump, I think there's something fundamentally wrong with you,” Cruz told friends amid a fierce GOP presidential primary, according to a new book titled “American Carnage: On the Front Lines of the Republican Civil War and the Rise of President Trump,” The New York Times reported.
Cruz in 2016 said 'something fundamentally wrong' with Christians who back Trump: book | TheHill
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Quote:Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) said Monday it was "reprehensible" that Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) was receiving death threats. “This is reprehensible,” Cruz tweeted. “Disagree with @IlhanMN on the merits, fine, but death threats to anyone are not a joke.”
Cruz calls death threats to Omar 'reprehensible' | TheHill
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Quote:“As you are speaking as the oracle of science, tell us, what exactly is a Y chromosome?” Cruz responded on Twitter. “And at what age of gestation does science tell us that an unborn child feels physical pain?” He may have picked the wrong opponent – Ocasio-Cortez, it transpires, holds an award for microbiology from MIT. Despite reports in the past of the two lawmakers, surprisingly, finding common ground on other issues, Ocasio-Cortez did not let the slight go unaddressed this morning. Touting her scientific background bona fides, and jabbing at Cruz, who, like Pence, gives primacy to his religious beliefs over science, she delivered an acerbic put-down. “I’m surprised you’re asking about chromosomes given that you don’t believe in evolution,” she said.
Ted Cruz tried to mock AOC's scientific knowledge – it didn't end well | US news | The Guardian
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Quote:After the primaries in 2016 Senator Cruz described Trump as “utterly immoral”, a “pathological liar”, and “a narcissist at a level I don’t think this country has ever seen”. Quite. Now he is playing along in a cynical bid to scoop up the Trump base.
Trump's spell has finally been broken and the Republic survives
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Quote:Speaking to The Hill last July exactly one year ago, the Texas lawmaker claimed the pandemic might magically disappear if Democrats won the presidential election.
"If it ends up that Biden wins in November -- I hope he doesn't, I don't think he will -- but if he does, I guarantee you the week after the election, suddenly all those Democratic governors, all those Democratic mayors, will say, 'Everything's magically better. Go back to work. Go back to school. Suddenly all the problems are solved.' You won't to have to wait for Biden to be sworn in. All they'll need is Election Day and suddenly their willingness to just destroy people's lives and livelihoods, they will have accomplished their task. That's wrong. It's cynical. And we shouldn't be a part of it."
His claim was, essentially, that Democrats were fabricating their concern about the virus in order to hurt Trump's re-election chances. It was clearly false then, but it has been definitively proven wrong in the meantime..
'This is so revealing': Ted Cruz faces backlash at the one-year mark of his disastrously failed prediction - Alternet.org
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Quote:Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas has been vehemently critical of the bipartisan infrastructure bill proposed in the U.S. Senate, slamming it as "reckless." But according to Houston Chronicle reporter J.R. Jordan, that didn't stop the far-right GOP senator from trying to include his own highway project in it..
Ted Cruz slammed infrastructure plan as 'reckless' — after trying to include his own highway project in it - Alternet.org
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