A Look at Ted Cruz's Resume
Ted Cruz’s Resume is Very
Impressive, Should Make him Standout Among Other Candidates.
- Graduated
valedictorian in 1988 from Second Baptist High School
- Graduated
cum laude from Princeton University in 1992
- Graduated
magna cum laude from Harvard Law School in 1995
- 1992
U.S. National Debate Champion representing Princeton
- 1995
World Debating Championship semi-finalist representing Harvard
- Served
a law clerk to Chief Justice William Rehnquist, making him the first
Hispanic ever to clerk for a Chief Justice of the United States
- Served
as Solicitor General of Texas from 2003 to 2008, making him the first
Hispanic Solicitor General in Texas, the youngest Solicitor General in the entire
country and the longest tenure in Texas history
- Partner
at the law firm Morgan, Lewis & Bockius, where he led the firm’s U.S.
Supreme Court and national appellate litigation practice
- Authored
over 80 SCOTUS briefs and presented over 40 oral arguments before The
Court
- In
the landmark case of District of Columbia v. Heller, Cruz assembled a coalition of 31
states in defense of the principle that the 2nd Amendment guarantees an
individual right to keep and bear arms
- Presented
oral arguments before the United States Court of Appeals for the
District of Columbia Circuit
- Defended
the Ten Commandments monument on the Texas State Capitol grounds,
- Defended
the recitation of the Pledge of Allegiance in public schools
- Defended
the State of Texas against an attempt by the International Court of
Justice to re-open the criminal convictions of 51 murderers on death row
throughout the United States
- Director
of the Office of Policy Planning at the Federal Trade Commission
- Domestic
Policy Advisor to U.S. President George W. Bush on the 2000 Bush-Cheney
campaign
- Adjunct
Professor of Law at the University of Texas School of Law in Austin, where he taught U.S. Supreme Court litigation
- Ted Cruz is
currently junior US Senator from Texas, defeating Texas Lieutenant Governor David
Dewhurst who was heavily favored and backed by the DC old-guard GOP
- Defeated
Democrat Paul Sadler in the general election
- Endorsed
by The Tea Party and the Republican Liberty Caucus
- AWARDS:
“America’s Leading Lawyers for Business,” Chambers USA (2009 & 2010)
“50 Most Influential Minority Lawyers in America,” National Law Journal
(2008) “25 Greatest Texas Lawyers of the Past Quarter Century,” Texas
Lawyer (2010) “20 Young Hispanic Americans on the Rise,” Newsweek (1999)
Traphagen Distinguished Alumnus, Harvard Law School
- On
November 14, 2012,
Cruz was appointed vice-chairman of the National Republican Senatorial
Committee
- Unlike
Obama, Cruz didn’t seat in the U.S. Senate and vote “present.” He has
sponsored 97 bills. Here are a few crucial pieces of legislation sponsored
by Cruz:
- ObamaCare Repeal Act
- Prohibit use of drones from killing citizens of
the United
States within the United States
- Disarm Criminals and Protect Communities Act
- Firearm Straw Purchasing and Trafficking
Prevention Act
- Defund Obamacare Act of 2013
- A bill to amend the National Voter Registration
Act of 1993 to permit States to require proof of citizenship for
registration to vote in elections for Federal office
- A bill to designate the United States courthouse located at 101 East Pecan Street in Sherman, Texas, as the Paul Brown United States Courthouse
- A bill to require the Secretary of State to
offer rewards of up to $5,000,000 for information regarding the attacks
on the United States diplomatic mission at Benghazi, Libya that began on
September 11, 2012
- State Marriage Defense Act of 2014
- A bill to amend title 18, United States Code, to
prohibit the intentional discrimination of a person or organization by an
employee of the Internal Revenue Service
- A bill to prohibit the Department of the
Treasury from assigning tax statuses to organizations based on their political
beliefs and activities
- American Energy Renaissance Act of 2014
- A bill to deny admission to the United States to
any representative to the United Nations who has been found to have been
engaged in espionage activities or a terrorist activity against the
United States and poses a threat to United States national security
interests
- SuperPAC Elimination Act of 2014
- Free All Speech Act of 2014
- Guantanamo Bay Detainee Transfer Suspension Act of 2014
- A bill to require the Secretary of State to
offer rewards totaling up to $5,000,000 for information on the kidnapping
and murder of Naftali Fraenkel, a dual United States-Israeli citizen,
that began on June 12, 2014
- A bill to prevent the expansion of the Deferred
Action for Childhood Arrivals program unlawfully created by Executive
memorandum on August 15, 2012
- Sanction Iran, Safeguard America Act of 2014
- Expatriate Terrorists Act
- Operation United Assistance Tax Exclusion Act of
2014
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