For Ted Cruz, culture war skirmishes at Supreme Court hearing track his 2024 ambitions | Analysis
Focus on Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson’s child porn cases, transgender politics and critical race theory intensified spotlight on GOP presidential hopefuls.
“The junior senator from Texas likes to get on television,” blurted an exasperated Sen. Patrick Leahy, a Vermont Democrat, at one point as Cruz tried to interject out of turn. Cruz was a year ahead of her at Harvard Law School. Both clerked at the Supreme Court, where he later represented Texas as the state’s chief appellate lawyer.
Cruz, who’s shrugged off far worse from online trolls, the former president and late night comedians, easily ignored that. “I don’t believe that any child should be made to feel as though they are racist or though they are not valued or though they are less-than. That they are victims. That they are oppressors,” Jackson said.
And politically, it resonates with precisely the voters Cruz wants to impress if he makes another run at the White House.Iowa is the first gauntlet for presidential hopefuls every four years. Cruz won the caucuses in 2016, edging past Donald Trump. Chris Christie, the former New Jersey governor who got knocked out by a lackluster showing in New Hampshire in 2016, returned this week for a must-do “politics and eggs” breakfast.Sen. Tom Cotton was in the state in December. Sens. Rick Scott and Tim Scott have passed through. Nikki Haley, the former South Carolina governor who served as Trump’s United Nations ambassador will stump for a congressional candidate in early April.
Three Democrats used Justice Brett Kavanaugh’s hearing in September 2018 as a launching pad: Sens. Kamala Harris, Amy Klobuchar and Cory Booker. “His questioning was very mild compared to the shameful way that Democrats have treated Republican nominees,” said Ager. “He was much more effective than the Democrat witch hunt about Justice Kavanaugh.”
“How would you determine if a plaintiff had Article Three standing to challenge a gender-based rule, regulation, policy, without being able to determine what a woman was?” Cruz asked.
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