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NJCher

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Wed Jan 20, 2016, 02:38 PM Jan 2016

Another Article Detailing the Creepiness of Ted Cruz

This article discusses how Cruz, while a Supreme Court clerk, seemed obsessed with the lurid details of crimes. He was the only clerk who would discuss the details of the crimes in detail.


But when he left, he was most remembered by his fellow clerks for his fervor for capital punishment cases, a cause that would define his legal career and help him break into politics.

“I believe in the death penalty,” Mr. Cruz wrote in his book “A Time for Truth.” As he saw it, it was his duty to include all the details and “describe the brutal nature of the crime.”

“Liberal clerks would typically omit the facts; it was harder to jump on the moral high horse in defense of a depraved killer,” he wrote.

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Mr. Cruz became devoted to Mr. Luttig, whom Mr. Cruz has described as “like a father to me.” During his clerkship, he presented his boss with a caricature of him and other clerks pulling a stagecoach driven by the judge. According to someone who saw the illustration, there was a graveyard behind them with headstones representing the number of people executed in their jurisdiction that year.
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The man makes me cringe.


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