TWENTY THREE THINGS YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT TED CURZ'S PAST

TWENTY THREE THINGS YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT TED CURZ'S PAST

(Conservative Tribune) Before a business owner hires someone, he checks the person’s resume. Likewise, conservatives should do the same with our candidates, including Sen. Ted Cruz.

So without further ado, here is a list of Ted Cruz’s top accomplishments in life and in office:

1. Cruz graduated valedictorian in 1988 from Second Baptist High School in Houston, Texas.

#2. Cruz graduated cum laude from Princeton in 1992.

#3. Cruz became the 1992 U.S. National Debate Tournament champion that same year.

#4. Cruz graduated magna cum laude from Harvard Law School in 1995.

#5. Cruz became the World Universities Debating Championship semi-finalist that same year.

#6. Cruz worked as a law clerk to Chief Justice William Rehnquist, thus becoming the first ever Latino to clerk for a chief of justice.

#7. Cruz served as solicitor general of Texas from 2003 to 2008, thus becoming the first Latino solicitor general in Texas and the youngest solicitor general in the continental U.S.

#8. Cruz served as a partner at the law firm Morgan, Lewis & Bockius.

#9. Cruz authored over 80 Supreme Court briefs and presented 40 oral arguments before the court.

#10. Cruz assembled a coalition of 31 states in defense of the Second Amendment in the District of Columbia v. Heller case.

#11. Cruz presented oral arguments before the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit.

#12. Cruz defended the Ten Commandments monument that stands on the Texas State Capitol grounds.

#13. Cruz defended the recitation of the Pledge of Allegiance in public schools.

#14. Cruz defended Texas against an attempt by an international court to re-open the criminal convictions of 51 killers on death row.

#15. Cruz served as the director for the Office of Policy Planning at the Federal Trade Commission.

#16. Cruz was a domestic policy adviser to former President Geroge W. Bush during the 2000 election season.

#17. Cruz taught U.S. Supreme Court litigation at the University of Texas School of Law in Austin.

#18. Cruz defeated establishment-preferred candidate David Henry Dewhurst during the 2012 runoff election.

#19. Cruz later defeated Democrat Paul Sadler and became the junior senior from Texas.

#20. Cruz has been endorsed by both the tea party and the Republican Liberty Caucus.

#21. Cruz has received a number of awards, including one for being one of “America’s Leading Lawyers for Business”; one for being one of the “50 Most Influential Minority Lawyers in America”; and one for being one of the “25 Greatest Texas Lawyers of the Past Quarter Century.”

#22. Cruz was appointed to be the vice chairman of the National Republican Senatorial Committee in 2012.

#23. Cruz has sponsored 97 bills, included the highly touted ObamaCare Repeal Act.

H/T Young Conservatives

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