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About Ted Cruz: Bet You Did Not Know This
Posted by: Buried History ()
Date: September 25, 2016 09:21AM

How good a lawyer is Ted Cruz? Very, very good.

At Harvard Law School, he was praised as being "off the charts brilliant" by a notable (and liberal) professor. He graduated in the top 10% of his class and clerked for Chief Justice Rehnquist. Afterwards, Cruz took a position at Cooper, Carvin & Rosenthal, a prestigious new firm focusing on Constitutional law, where he worked on matters relating to the National Rifle Association, the impeachment proceedings against President Bill Clinton, and as private counsel for Congressman John Boehner. He later quit private practice to serve as one of George W Bush's domestic policy adviser in his 2000 Presidential election and organize Bush's (winning) legal defense over Florida's voting dispute.

Afterwards Cruz served as Texas' solicitor general where he argued nine cases in front of the Supreme Court, winning five. To even make one case in front of the USSC is a huge honor; making nine is simply extraordinary.

Regardless of political ideology, Ted Cruz is an exceptionally sharp attorney, respected and admired by many top professionals.

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Re: About Ted Cruz: Bet You Did Not Know This
Posted by: OP is a great Google searcher ()
Date: September 25, 2016 09:47AM

Wow, OP is finally getting around to doing research on a guy everyone researched when he started making national news 3 years ago. Great job using Wikipedia OP. Everyone was starved to hear this info about a former presidential candidate that no one gives a shit about any longer.

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Re: About Ted Cruz: Bet You Did Not Know This
Posted by: Buried History ()
Date: September 25, 2016 10:20AM

Correct. I had no idea that Ted Cruz was that good. Thought he was just one of many who lost to Trump.

Maybe we will see him in national politics again under better circumstances.

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Re: About Ted Cruz: Bet You Did Not Know This
Posted by: No comparison at all ()
Date: September 25, 2016 10:54AM

Cruz is a dickhead but look at his law career compared to Obama's. Cruz is incredibly more accomplished.


It's like Obama studied another language intensively for years but never had a conversation it that language.

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Re: About Ted Cruz: Bet You Did Not Know This
Posted by: jnvKX ()
Date: September 25, 2016 10:55AM

Ted Cruz didn't "make" nine cases in front of the Supreme Court. He argued nine. Making or getting a case in front of the U.S. Supreme Court usually implies the person guided the case through the system and was responsible for getting the Supreme Court to hear the case.

Getting nine cases in front of the Supreme Court is a truly remakable achievement, as the Supreme Court is very particular about the type of cases it will accept. Arguing nine cases, while an honor, isn't the same. It means you were either thought good enough to win the case, or you held a position that entitled you to argue the case. For Cruz it was mostly the latter. All but one of his appearances before the Supreme Court were in his capacity as Solicitor General of the State of Texas. Like the United States the Texas Solicitor General's office is the office that provides the attorneys to represent Texas in cases before the Supreme Court where Texas is a party. There is currently a deputy solicitor general who has appeared before the Supreme Court in 100 cases.

As for his record before the Court there are four clear losses. There is also one case where the court ruled overall the redistricting was OK but that one district violated the law, what most would consider a mixed result. In another, after oral arguments Cruz asked that the case be returned to the lower court which imposed a lower sentence on the criminal defendant which was the whole point of the defendant's appeal, so again most would call this a loss. Of the three wins, two involved the same case. A fairer assessment would be three wins with an asterisk, one mixed result and five losses.

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Re: About Ted Cruz: Bet You Did Not Know This
Posted by: Ted! ()
Date: September 25, 2016 12:21PM

fyi..Many psychopaths ere brilliant but something was quite right about them..

*Hitler
*Chairman Mao
*Napoleon
*"L. Ron Hubbard
*Caligula

and so on..

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Re: About Ted Cruz: Bet You Did Not Know This
Posted by: BrianSchoeneman ()
Date: September 25, 2016 12:28PM

Actually, we all pretty much think he's a pompous ass.

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Re: About Ted Cruz: Bet You Did Not Know This
Posted by: uJYk7 ()
Date: September 25, 2016 03:21PM

BrianSchoeneman Wrote:
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> Actually, we all pretty much think he's a pompous
> ass.


Who's 'we' Brian? This is why you can't win. Dems won't vote for you because they vote for the democrat and republicans won't vote for you because you're an disloyal prick. Why don't you attack Trump again while you're at it?

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Re: About Ted Cruz: Bet You Did Not Know This
Posted by: Srsly? ()
Date: September 25, 2016 07:10PM

Best Cruz line:
"a narcissist at a level I don't think this country's ever seen"
complete with a pause where he's clearly thinking, "because I thought I had the title sewn up".

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Re: About Ted Cruz: Bet You Did Not Know This
Posted by: 32ui0 ()
Date: September 26, 2016 09:15AM

Cruz was born with a supercomputer for a brain, the rest of him never had to develop. Not much different from a woman born so beautiful, or someone inheriting a fortune they never built.

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Re: About Ted Cruz: Bet You Did Not Know This
Posted by: BrianSchoeneman ()
Date: September 26, 2016 09:27AM

uJYk7 Wrote:
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> BrianSchoeneman Wrote:
> --------------------------------------------------
> -----
> > Actually, we all pretty much think he's a
> pompous
> > ass.
>
>
> Who's 'we' Brian? This is why you can't win. Dems
> won't vote for you because they vote for the
> democrat and republicans won't vote for you
> because you're an disloyal prick. Why don't you
> attack Trump again while you're at it?

"We" is every Republican in Washington.

I've been attacking Trump throughout this campaign. Where have you been?

I'm loyal to folks who earn it - not Cruz and certainly not the Democrat who won the GOP nomination.

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Re: About Ted Cruz: Bet You Did Not Know This
Posted by: Bill Derberger ()
Date: September 26, 2016 10:09AM

BrianSchoeneman Wrote:
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> uJYk7 Wrote:
> --------------------------------------------------
> -----
> > BrianSchoeneman Wrote:
> >
> --------------------------------------------------
>
> > -----
> > > Actually, we all pretty much think he's a
> > pompous
> > > ass.
> >
> >
> > Who's 'we' Brian? This is why you can't win.
> Dems
> > won't vote for you because they vote for the
> > democrat and republicans won't vote for you
> > because you're an disloyal prick. Why don't
> you
> > attack Trump again while you're at it?
>
> "We" is every Republican in Washington.
>
> I've been attacking Trump throughout this
> campaign. Where have you been?
>
> I'm loyal to folks who earn it - not Cruz and
> certainly not the Democrat who won the GOP
> nomination.

Cruz lost the primary and his Bilderberger wife is never going to be First Lady.
Get over it or vote for Hillary.

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Re: About Ted Cruz: Bet You Did Not Know This
Posted by: no ()
Date: September 26, 2016 11:07AM

BrianSchoeneman Wrote:
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> "We" is every Republican in Washington.

Wrong Brian.

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Re: About Ted Cruz: Bet You Did Not Know This
Posted by: BrianSchoeneman ()
Date: September 26, 2016 11:16AM

no Wrote:
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> BrianSchoeneman Wrote:
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> -----
> > "We" is every Republican in Washington.
>
> Wrong Brian.

I don't know anybody in Washington, outside Cruz's staff, who likes the guy.

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Re: About Ted Cruz: Bet You Did Not Know This
Posted by: blackstone ()
Date: September 26, 2016 11:17AM

Buried History Wrote:
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> How good a lawyer is Ted Cruz? Very, very good.
>
> At Harvard Law School, he was praised as being
> "off the charts brilliant" by a notable (and
> liberal) professor. He graduated in the top 10% of
> his class and clerked for Chief Justice Rehnquist.
> Afterwards, Cruz took a position at Cooper, Carvin
> & Rosenthal, a prestigious new firm focusing on
> Constitutional law, where he worked on matters
> relating to the National Rifle Association, the
> impeachment proceedings against President Bill
> Clinton, and as private counsel for Congressman
> John Boehner. He later quit private practice to
> serve as one of George W Bush's domestic policy
> adviser in his 2000 Presidential election and
> organize Bush's (winning) legal defense over
> Florida's voting dispute.
>
> Afterwards Cruz served as Texas' solicitor general
> where he argued nine cases in front of the Supreme
> Court, winning five. To even make one case in
> front of the USSC is a huge honor; making nine is
> simply extraordinary.
>
> Regardless of political ideology, Ted Cruz is an
> exceptionally sharp attorney, respected and
> admired by many top professionals.

Let's calm down a bit. I have a friend who has argued 20 cases before the
Supreme Court. He is a bright and effective litigator, but not brilliant. Moreover, being a solicitor general naturally puts you in a position to argue your state's cases.

Cruz is certainly bright, but Dershowitz (who praised Cruz) is prone to hyperbole. Dershowitz craves attention.

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Re: About Ted Cruz: Bet You Did Not Know This
Posted by: Inside the Beltway ()
Date: September 26, 2016 11:55AM

BrianSchoeneman Wrote:
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> I've been attacking Trump throughout this
> campaign. Where have you been?
>
> I'm loyal to folks who earn it - not Cruz and
> certainly not the Democrat who won the GOP
> nomination.


Typing this on the day of the first debate, when Trump has closed the gap with Clinton to just a few points in several important swing states. We'll see tonight what happens next.

Brian, I am a so-called inside-the-beltway Republican, somewhat like you, but not too much. Just like my good friend who hosted the party "wake" in the Capitol Hill Irish Pub during the Dem convention. Didn't see you there.

But here is how we differ. The two of you cannot seem to get past the fact that Republicans, real Republicans, voting Republicans, hard-working party-loyal Republicans from all over the Country chose Donald Trump as our candidate for President. His "Make America Great Again" theme resonates with many voters of all political persuasions.

Sure, Trump's nomination was a rebuke to the superbly qualified candidates of long Republican heritage. Beginning with my personal favorite, Scott Walker, who I suspect you might detest as much as Ted Cruz, though for different reasons.

But please come to terms with the big picture now, though it may already be too late.

You know damn well that a Hillary Clinton administration will be far more Democrat, Liberal, and anti-Conservative than a Trump administration.

Do you really want to spite Republicanism, Conservatism, Americanism, and so many other values and beliefs just because our favorite insiders lost?

Do you really want Donald Trump to "prove" himself to Republican elitists to gain their support, unlike any other Republican presidential candidate in recent times? Or is that just one of many lame excuses?

Is there a real reason that professional Republicans like you are scared of Donald Trump? Could it be that you fear you won't be invited to participate in a Trump administration?

Or is it just sour grapes? You didn't get your way so you are going to sulk and hand over more political power to Democrats? Then you will blame Trump instead of yourself for not supporting our party's candidate?

The same way the Republican establishment pulled support from Ken Cuccinelli - who could have won Virginia?

That, my friend, would be pathetic.

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Re: About Ted Cruz: Bet You Did Not Know This
Posted by: Gurus on Fairfax Underground ()
Date: September 26, 2016 11:58AM

blackstone Wrote:
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> I have a friend who has argued 20 cases before the
> Supreme Court. He is a bright and effective
> litigator, but not brilliant.

I am impressed that someone who hangs in those circles takes time to post here.

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Re: About Ted Cruz: Bet You Did Not Know This
Posted by: Sucksdoesntit ()
Date: September 26, 2016 03:22PM

Brian Schoeneman is a pompous ass. You came in last in the primary. You call yourself a Republican but won't support the candidate. You couldn't even get elected to your HOA.

You are a Union schill and a RINO.

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Re: About Ted Cruz: Bet You Did Not Know This
Posted by: no ()
Date: September 26, 2016 03:37PM

BrianSchoeneman Wrote:
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> no Wrote:
> --------------------------------------------------
> -----
> > BrianSchoeneman Wrote:
> >
> --------------------------------------------------
>
> > -----
> > > "We" is every Republican in Washington.
> >
> > Wrong Brian.
>
> I don't know anybody in Washington, outside Cruz's
> staff, who likes the guy.


Talk to more people. I'm sitting down the hall from a big Cruz backer.

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Re: About Ted Cruz: Bet You Did Not Know This
Posted by: Thomas Jefferson ()
Date: September 26, 2016 04:28PM

BrianSchoeneman Wrote:
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> no Wrote:
> --------------------------------------------------
> -----
> > BrianSchoeneman Wrote:
> >
> --------------------------------------------------
>
> > -----
> > > "We" is every Republican in Washington.
> >
> > Wrong Brian.
>
> I don't know anybody in Washington, outside Cruz's
> staff, who likes the guy.


A great example of how you Establishment republicans are so out of step with Mainstream Republicans.

You know, the ones who really do want to Make America Great Again.

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Re: About Ted Cruz: Bet You Did Not Know This
Posted by: no ()
Date: September 26, 2016 04:34PM

Thomas Jefferson Wrote:
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> BrianSchoeneman Wrote:
> --------------------------------------------------
> -----
> > no Wrote:
> >
> --------------------------------------------------
>
> > -----
> > > BrianSchoeneman Wrote:
> > >
> >
> --------------------------------------------------
>
> >
> > > -----
> > > > "We" is every Republican in Washington.
> > >
> > > Wrong Brian.
> >
> > I don't know anybody in Washington, outside
> Cruz's
> > staff, who likes the guy.
>
>
> A great example of how you Establishment
> republicans are so out of step with Mainstream
> Republicans.
>
> You know, the ones who really do want to Make
> America Great Again.


But he's actually wrong about establishment Republicans not supporting Cruz. Ted and Heidi are popular among many 43 alums.

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Re: About Ted Cruz: Bet You Did Not Know This
Posted by: YudbF ()
Date: September 26, 2016 04:42PM

BrianSchoeneman Wrote:
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> uJYk7 Wrote:
> --------------------------------------------------
> -----
> > BrianSchoeneman Wrote:
> >
> --------------------------------------------------
>
> > -----
> > > Actually, we all pretty much think he's a
> > pompous
> > > ass.
> >
> >
> > Who's 'we' Brian? This is why you can't win.
> Dems
> > won't vote for you because they vote for the
> > democrat and republicans won't vote for you
> > because you're an disloyal prick. Why don't
> you
> > attack Trump again while you're at it?
>
> "We" is every Republican in Washington.
>
> I've been attacking Trump throughout this
> campaign. Where have you been?
>


I know. That's why I wrote "AGAIN" in the post.

Trump is bad, but he's 1000 times better than Hillary. You whine about the need to compromise in politics, yet Trump is the one who will compromise when needed, not Hillary. Obama didn't compromise in 8 years. Hillary will continue Obama's partisan ideology. And yet you attack Trump because he can see different sides of an issue. Sad Brian, so very sad.

If you were running against Sharon Bulova, I would vote for you even though I think you're a disloyal prick. I know as bad as you are, you're 100 times (not the 1000 times that Trump is) better than Bulova is. You don't get this, which is why you are part of the problem.

DC needs an enema and WE THE PEOPLE are about to give it one. You are part of the clogged feces that needs to be flushed out.

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Re: About Ted Cruz: Bet You Did Not Know This
Posted by: confederacy of dunces ()
Date: September 26, 2016 05:43PM

YudbF Wrote:
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> BrianSchoeneman Wrote:
> --------------------------------------------------
> -----
> > uJYk7 Wrote:
> >
> --------------------------------------------------
>
> > -----
> > > BrianSchoeneman Wrote:
> > >
> >
> --------------------------------------------------
>
> >
> > > -----
> > > > Actually, we all pretty much think he's a
> > > pompous
> > > > ass.
> > >
> > >
> > > Who's 'we' Brian? This is why you can't win.
> > Dems
> > > won't vote for you because they vote for the
> > > democrat and republicans won't vote for you
> > > because you're an disloyal prick. Why don't
> > you
> > > attack Trump again while you're at it?
> >
> > "We" is every Republican in Washington.
> >
> > I've been attacking Trump throughout this
> > campaign. Where have you been?
> >
>
>
> I know. That's why I wrote "AGAIN" in the post.
>
> Trump is bad, but he's 1000 times better than
> Hillary. You whine about the need to compromise
> in politics, yet Trump is the one who will
> compromise when needed, not Hillary. Obama didn't
> compromise in 8 years. Hillary will continue
> Obama's partisan ideology. And yet you attack
> Trump because he can see different sides of an
> issue. Sad Brian, so very sad.
>
> If you were running against Sharon Bulova, I would
> vote for you even though I think you're a disloyal
> prick. I know as bad as you are, you're 100 times
> (not the 1000 times that Trump is) better than
> Bulova is. You don't get this, which is why you
> are part of the problem.
>
> DC needs an enema and WE THE PEOPLE are about to
> give it one. You are part of the clogged feces
> that needs to be flushed out.

Trump lies about everything. Republicans keep recycling the same Hillary "lies," but Trump produces new ones every day. It was hilarious that Trump whined that Lester Holt would be unfair as moderator because he is a Democrat, when Holt is actually a Republican. Then, his mouthpiece Conway said it wasn't a lie because Trump had no way of knowing that Holt was a Republican. There you have it straight from Conway: Trump isn't a liar, just a bullshitter.

The Republicans met after Obama's first inauguration and vowed to fight him on everything. If you think Obama would not compromise, you have been completely and utterly brainwashed. Where is the great alternative to the Affordable Care Act? It never existed. Republicans offered no alternatives. The idea that Obama would not compromise is bunk.

Hillary is bad, but Trump is so much worse. He lies/bullshits so much more, he whines incessantly, and he is petulant. It is no wonder Putin and Kim Jong Un love him.

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Re: About Ted Cruz: Bet You Did Not Know This
Posted by: lol republitards ()
Date: September 26, 2016 06:50PM

I can't wait for you people to go the way of the whig. 2020 will be Democratic Party versus WWE I have to assume at this point, but will the Undertaker have what it takes to defeat Hillary Clinton?

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