7.2 Debate over changes to immigration law (2014).4.2 Key votes: Previous sessions of Congress.For more information on the 2020 Supreme Court vacancy created by the death of former Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg on September 18, 2020, click here. President Trump (R) nominated Amy Coney Barrett to the seat on September 26, 2020. Supreme Court nominees released on September 9, 2020. Ĭruz was included on President Donald Trump’s (R) list of 20 potential U.S. After both advanced to the runoff, Cruz won with 56 percent of the vote. Dewhurst had finished in first place in the initial primary, with Cruz in second. Ĭruz defeated David Dewhurst in the Republican Party primary for United States Senate in 2012. He suspended his presidential campaign on May 3, 2016, after losing the Indiana Republican primary to Donald Trump. Ĭruz ran for the Republican Party nomination for president in 2016. history specifically by the candidates themselves. He won re-election in 2018, defeating Beto O'Rourke in the general election. He won in the general election on November 6, 2018.Ĭruz previously served as Solicitor General for Texas from 2003-2008, during which he argued nine cases before the Supreme Court. His current term ends on January 3, 2025.Ĭruz ( Republican Party) ran for re-election to the U.S. And there it is all my mature aims, once again, lost.Ted Cruz ( Republican Party) is a member of the U.S. And then I’m caught off guard by a clip of Graham, scurrying out of the committee room like a tiny, angry blond mole.
I can consider people I violently disagree with fully rounded human beings worthy of consideration and respect. Aren’t we as childish as them, sometimes? And as reluctant to take into account the whole story? I can do this, I think. Increasingly, I wonder if the extreme sport of giving a minute to the possibility that, in some of our responses, we’re as trigger-happy as the other lot, is a beneficial undertaking worth putting time in to. This kind of reflex attack is recreational and tribal, used on both sides to foment connections with others who feel the same way. This is not a helpful or sophisticated response, but oh God, here comes Ted Cruz: the state of that man. I can concentrate on keeping my responses relevant until my veins stand out, but a single image of Hawley will trigger a flood of judgment that always terminates in, oh, gross, what a terrible little runt that man is: he’s literally got a pin head.
However hard I try, I can’t put most Republican senators in the same category as Dianne Feinstein. Where this experiment falls down is in trying to extend the same largesse to the Republican senators themselves. With super-human effort, I can stop the domino-run of character assassination that takes off once I understand that I don’t like her politics, and consider the possibility that she’s not a bad judge. Unlike Kavanaugh, Barrett is clearly highly intelligent and extremely well qualified. But it was still a useful thought experiment to consider that nominees put forward to the supreme court by Republican presidents were as subject to extra-judicial dislike as those coming in from the left. Late last year, Barrett, in the course of hearing an abortion case, made the bizarre and, to my mind, woefully wrong-headed assertion that adoption rendered many abortions unnecessary. I don’t mean to erase the two women’s legitimate differences. In similar form, one can imagine without too much effort, what visceral responses Jackson’s broad outline might trigger in spectators on the right. So my internal judgments jogged along, and very enjoyable they were, too, premised as they were on moral superiority. And what’s up with her adoption of all those children? In spite of the mixed racial makeup of her family, I bet at heart she’s a massive racist. Ugh, I recall thinking, while watching her confirmation hearing look at her fanatically straight hair and beady little eyes. What I mean by that, is that while Coney Barrett’s thoughts on abortion and connection to groups such as People of Praise were legitimately concerning, there was, on my part at least, also a visceral dislike of the woman that took much more personal form. But while, four years ago, no one but the staunchest Republican could hear Kavanaugh’s inarticulate address and conclude he occupied his seat on merit alone, the visceral dislike many of us on the left felt towards, say, Amy Coney Barrett, seemed to me not entirely premised on her performance and track record. The confirmation hearings at the supreme court have become a grandstanding opportunity for ambitious senators, rather than a useful extra-legal enquiry, and of course they are completely partisan.
Jackson herself was almost supernaturally composed, occasionally letting a pause extend a beat beyond normal to indicate the scale of the resources required to stay calm.
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