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ANYBODY WHO SAYS TED CRUZ DOES NOT HAVE “EXECUTIVE” EXPERIENCE” .. IS REALLY SAYING - THEY HAVE NO CLUE WHAT A SOLICITOR GENERAL REALLY DOES. I HOPE THIS INFO WILL PUT THAT LIE TO REST FOR GOOD.

The following is a description of what Ted Cruz did as Solicitor General of the State of Texas. When you read all the items he was responsible for, it boggles the mind.

I thought he supervised all the attorneys in TX, but that’s not true. His office only supervises cases before the Federal Supreme Count, the TX Supreme Court, or the State’s Appellate Courts. His ability to direct and assist all these lawyers in all these different courts, is astounding; along with 14 attorneys and a support staff to help him.

Having worked in a law office consisting of 140 lawyers (in 3 offices in different cities), and having to keep all these cases straight; all documents filed in the right court; all documents stamped with the correct case number. It’s a monumental task. I used to take dictation from a lawyer in San Francisco .. while he was writing a brief which had to be filed that day. He was watching as I was typing .. and editing as we went along. I have to assume that in a state as big as TX, that type of document writing would be common, requiring a team of several typists.

Office of Solicitor General:

As the chief appellate lawyer for the State of Texas, the Solicitor General supervises ALL appellate litigation on behalf of the Office of the Attorney General. The Office of Solicitor General (OSG) APPROVES ALL civil and criminal appeals in state and federal courts involving the state, its agencies and its officials. OSG also directly handles those appeals determined to be most significant to Texas and to the development of federal and state jurisprudence and appears on occasion in federal and state trial courts on matters implicating the state’s most critical interests. In addition, OSG regularly authors amicus curiae (friend of the Court) briefs for submission to the U.S. Supreme Court and other courts across the nation.

The Solicitor General is the state’s chief litigator in the U.S. Supreme Court and the Texas Supreme Court. In addition, as a member of the Attorney General’s executive leadership team, the Solicitor General serves as a top legal advisor to the Attorney General and advises other agency lawyers and state officials on complex constitutional and other legal matters.

Established in January 1999, the Texas OSG is expressly modeled after the Office of the Solicitor General at the U.S. Department of Justice. The federal OSG was created through the Statutory Authorization Act of June 22, 1870, which provides that “[t]here shall be in the Department of Justice an officer learned in the law, to assist the Attorney General in the performance of his duties, to be called the Solicitor General.”

The Texas OSG appears regularly before the Supreme Court of the United States, the Supreme Court of Texas, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, and the intermediate state courts of appeals. Since 1999, OSG attorneys have presented 15 oral arguments in the U.S. Supreme Court, 74 in the Texas Supreme Court, and hundreds in other federal and state appellate and trial courts, including arguments before every intermediate court of appeals in Texas as well as three en banc arguments before the Fifth Circuit. OSG has won eight Best Brief Awards from the National Association of Attorneys General (NAAG) for briefs filed in the U.S. Supreme Court.

The Solicitor General of Texas is supported by two deputies, over a dozen assistant solicitors general and a highly dedicated support staff.

I REST MY CASE ..!!!!!

Post this where you will.

I wouldn’t vote at all if the election were held today, and probably won’t vote in Nov 2016 in any case.

‘B-but that’s just a vote for democrat!’ you say? OK. Since 1984, has a president been elected who was conservative? One that didn’t expand the scope and breadth of government dramatically? If there has been one, it’s escaped my notice.

I’ll tell you why you won’t see a conservative President in the future: the electorate is too invested in the welfare state to elect a conservative candidate who would actually cut programs of substance. In addition, caesar’s electoral process as run by the uniparty is too steeped in corruption to allow an actual conservative onto the ballot. (The only exception I see being someone who could self fund their own campaign and they would still face a welfare state electorate.)

So while presidential politics is entertaining to watch and comment on, in the end what you or I think about it doesn’t matter worth a hill of beans. See tagline.