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Ted Cruz would welcome a tie vote at the Supreme Court ending President Obama’s executive amnesty programs, according to an interview with Conservative Review on Monday. Initial reports from the oral arguments for United States v. Texas, hailed by many as the most important immigration case in a century, suggest that the court might come down to a 4-4 tie, which would uphold the Fifth Circuit Court’s decision and effectively ending Obama’s 2014 “Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals” and “Deferred Action for Parents of Americans” (DACA and DAPA) programs. “Well this is one of many cases where there’s a real...

When a political party picks one candidate over another, the party signals to the broader electorate what it represents. If the Republican Party nominates Ted Cruz instead of Donald Trump, it will represent one of the greatest practical and moral victories in the Republican Party’s noble history. Cruz’s enormous victory in Wisconsin this week makes it more probable than not that Donald Trump falls short of the required 1,237 delegates – 50 percent plus one of the 2,472 total delegates to the convention – to cinch the nomination on the first ballot. Combined with savvy delegate recruitment and a mounting...