Republican Senator from Texas (2013–) — former Texas Solicitor General — Harvard Law Review editor — who argued multiple cases before the Supreme Court — 2016 Republican presidential candidate (lost to Trump) — the most constitutionally literate Senator in recent memory.
Creates the constitutional originalist legal argument as a Senate political strategy — Cruz's use of his Supreme Court practice in Senate debate produces the most legally rigorous version of conservative constitutional arguments; his 21-hour filibuster on Obamacare was the most elaborate reading-aloud of a political position in Senate history.
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