For those who’d like a quick look at Cruz in Government:
He is the chairman of the subcommittee on the Oversight, Agency Action, Federal Rights and Federal Courts, U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee.
He is also the chairman of the subcommittee on Space, Science, and Competitiveness, U.S. Senate Commerce Committee.
Between 1999 and 2003, Cruz served as the director of the Office of Policy Planning at the ‘Federal Trade Commission’....., an associate deputy attorney general at the United States ‘Department of Justice’,..... and as domestic policy advisor to U.S. President George W. Bush on the 2000 Bush-Cheney campaign.
He served as ‘Solicitor General of Texas’ from 2003 to May 2008, after being appointed by Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott..... He was the first Hispanic, the youngest and the longest-serving solicitor general in Texas history.
Cruz was also an “adjunct professor of law” at the University of Texas School of Law” in Austin, from 2004 to 2009............. While there, “he taught U.S. Supreme Court litigation.”.....
Cruz is one of three Latinos in the Senate; the others—also Americans of Cuban ancestry—are fellow Republican Marco Rubio of Florida and Democrat Bob Menendez of New Jersey.
Cruz was the Republican nominee for the Senate seat vacated by fellow Republican Kay Bailey Hutchison..... On July 31, 2012, he defeated Lieutenant Governor David Dewhurst in the Republican primary runoff, 57%–43%..... Cruz defeated former state Representative Paul Sadler, in the general election, on November 6, 2012. He prevailed 56%–41% over Sadler......
Cruz openly identifies with the Tea Party movement and has been endorsed by the Republican Liberty Caucus....... On November 14, 2012, Cruz was appointed vice-chairman of the National Republican Senatorial Committee.
On March 23, 2015, Cruz announced he would run in the 2016 U.S. Presidential election.
Cruz on Education...(from Wikiapedia)
Cruz attended high school at Faith West Academy in Katy, Texas, and later graduated from Second Baptist High School in Houston as ‘valedictorian’ in 1988.
During high school, Cruz participated in a Houston-based group called the Free Market Education Foundation where Cruz learned about free-market economic philosophers such as Milton Friedman, Friedrich Hayek, Frédéric Bastiat and Ludwig von Mises..... The program was run by Rolland Storey and Cruz entered the program “at the age of 13”.
It was reported by BuzzFeed that in 1987 while Cruz was a senior in high school and at age 17, authorities found an unopened case of beer in his vehicle, resulting in them giving him a ticket. Cruz referred to the incident on his application for Texas Solicitor General, where he was required to list any prior convictions.
Cruz ‘graduated cum laude from Princeton University’ with a Bachelor of Arts in Public Policy from the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs in 1992.........
While at Princeton, he competed for the American Whig-Cliosophic Society’s ‘Debate Panel’ and won the top speaker award at both the 1992 U.S. National Debating Championship ‘and’ the 1992 North American Debating Championship.......
In 1992, he was named U.S. National Speaker of the Year and Team of the Year (with his debate partner, David Panton).
Cruz was also a semi-finalist at the 1995 World Universities Debating Championship, “making him Princeton’s highest-ranked debater” at the championship. Princeton’s debate team later named their annual novice championship after Cruz.
‘Cruz’s senior thesis on the separation of powers, titled “Clipping the Wings of Angels,”’.... draws its inspiration from a passage attributed to President James Madison:... “If angels were to govern men, neither external nor internal controls on government would be necessary.”...
.... Cruz argued that the drafters of the Constitution intended to protect the rights of their constituents, and the last two items in the Bill of Rights offered an explicit stop against an all-powerful state. Cruz wrote:..... “They simply do so from different directions. The Tenth stops new powers, and the Ninth fortifies all other rights, or non-powers.”
After graduating from Princeton, Cruz attended “Harvard Law School”, graduating magna cum laude in 1995 with a Juris Doctor degree........... While at Harvard Law, Cruz was a primary editor of the Harvard Law Review, and executive editor of the Harvard Journal of Law and Public Policy, and a founding editor of the Harvard Latino Law Review.....
....Referring to Cruz’s time as a student at Harvard Law, Professor Alan Dershowitz said,... “Cruz was off-the-charts brilliant.”.... At Harvard Law, Cruz was a John M. Olin Fellow in Law and Economics.
Cruz currently serves on the Board of Advisors of the Texas Review of Law and Politics.
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