by Ted Cruz
8. United States v. Jones; Sackett v. EPA; Hosanna-Tabor Evangelical Lutheran Church & School v. EEOC; Arizona v. United States; Gabelli v. SEC; Arkansas Fish & Game Commission v. United States; PPL Corp. v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue; Horne v. USDA; Sekhar v. United States; NLRB v. Noel Canning; Riley v. California; Bond v. United States; Burrage v. United States; Judulang v. Holder; United States v. Tinklenberg; Henderson ex rel. Henderson v. Shinseki; Carachuri-Rosendo v. Holder; United States v. O’Brien; Abuelhawa v. United States; Flores-Figueroa v. United States. All twenty decisions are listed and explained in Senator Ted Cruz, “The Supreme Court Has Unanimously Rejected the Obama Administration’s Arguments 20 Times,” http://www.cruz.senate.gov/files/documents/The%20Legal%20Limit/Report_5.pdf.
9. Riley concerned the actions of state police rather than federal agents, but the Obama administration’s theory extended to federal power. Riley v. California, Justia U.S. Supreme Court, June 25, 2014, https://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/573/13-132/.
10. U.S. Senate, 113th Congress, S.J. Res. 19, A Joint Resolution Proposing an Amendment to the Constitution of the United States Relating to Contributions and Expenditures Intended to Affect Elections, January 11, 2014, https://www.congress.gov/bill/113th-congress/senate-joint-resolution/19/all-info.
11. Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission, No. 08-205, 2009, http://www.supremecourt.gov/oral_arguments/argument_transcripts/08-205.pdf.
12. Laura W. Murphy, “The ACLU Supports Campaign Finance Reform and Free Speech,” ACLU.org, August 12, 2014, https://www.aclu.org/blog/free-speech/aclu-supports-campaign-finance-reform-and-free-speech.
13. Laura Sellers-Earl, “APME Condemns Justice Department Actions,” Associated Press Media Editors, May 14, 2013, http://www.apme.com/news/125392/APME-condemns-Justice-Department-actions.htm.
14. Editorial, “Another Chilling Leak Investigation,” New York Times, May 21, 2013, http://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/22/opinion/another-chilling-leak-investigation.html?_r=1.
Chapter 11
1. Margaret Thatcher, The Downing Street Years (New York: HarperCollins, 1993), 3.
2. Ibid., 5.
3. http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/comment/our-hate-figures-and-heroes-are-mere-surfers-on-the-tide-of-history-8572433.html.
4. Stephen Moore, “Obama’s Illusory Economic Recovery,” Washington Times, January 25, 2015, http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2015/jan/25/stephen-moore-obamas-illusory-economic-recovery/print/.
INDEX
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Abbott, Greg, 139–42, 185–86, 193, 196
and Cruz as Texas solicitor general, 141–42, 146–47, 149, 171–73
Medellín case and, 163
Ten Commandments case and, 157, 159
Abedini, Saeed, 294, 328
abortion, 28n, 65, 104, 172, 187
Aboutalebi, Hamid, 295
affirmative action, 61, 150
Harvard Law Review and, 76–78
and University of Michigan, 168
Afghanistan, 227, 301, 305
Africa, 83, 126, 178, 259
African-Americans, 61, 87, 199
gun control laws and, 168–69
Harvard Law Review and, 76, 78–79
and promise of America, 334, 336
Texas redistricting litigation and, 150–51
Ahmadinejad, Mahmoud, 291
Alamo, 242–43
Alfalfa Club, 223, 225, 227
Alito, Sam, 197, 312
Al Qaeda, 231, 302
American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), 183, 315
American exceptionalism, 323
American President, The, 133
American Revolution, 56, 66, 322–23
American Whig-Cliosophic Society, 60
American Whigs, 60–61
Animal Farm (Orwell), 2
Anti-Federalists, 38, 66
antitrust laws, 124, 130–31
Antitrust Paradox, The (Bork), 130–31
Armstrong, Scott, 72
Army, U.S., 38, 53, 55–56, 298
Ashcroft, John, 123, 206
Assad, Bashar al-, 231, 302
Associated Press, 217, 316
Audacity to Win, The (Plouffe), 202
Auschwitz, 97
Austin, Tex., 129, 139, 222, 234, 253
Bush’s presidential campaign and, 99, 104–5, 110, 112, 125
and Cruz as Texas solicitor general, 142, 146
Cruz’s father and, 17–19
Australia, 55, 253–54
Awlaki, Anwar al-, 298
Awty International School, 33
Baker, James A., III, 113, 116, 121–22, 127
Baker Botts, 82
bank bailouts, 181
Bartley, Robert, xxii
base realignment and closure (BRAC) process, 298
Bash, Dana, 279–80
Batista, Fulgencio, 5, 10–12, 16, 18
Beazley, Napoleon, 68–71
Beck, Glenn, 65
Beck, Phil, 118
Benghazi attack, 289–90
Bergen-Belsen, 97
Berlin Wall, 327–28
Biden, Joe, 226–27, 257–58
Bill of Rights, U.S., 65–66, 171, 241, 244, 306, 313–14
child pornography and, 250–51
gun control laws and, 248–49
birth control, 28
Bitburg, 96–98
Bloomberg, Michael, 301
Boehner, John, xvi, 101
Boies, David, 116–17
Bolten, Josh, 103–6, 111
Booth, Sherman, 259–61
Bork, Robert, 88, 130–31
Boston Globe, 76
Boxer, Barbara, 236
Bradbury, Ray, 315
Brennan, John, 242
Brethren, The (Woodward and Armstrong), 72
Breyer, Stephen, 80, 86, 90, 158
Brokaw, Tom, 99–100
Brooks, Garth, 134
Brown, Pat, 174–76, 178
Brown, Scott, 231
Brown University, 56n–57n
Buchanan, James, 260–61
Buchenwald, 97
Budget Control Act (BCA), xi, xxiii
Bülow, Claus von, 73
Burch, Dean, 135–36, 139
Burger, Warren, 80–81
Bush, Barbara, 100, 105, 188, 191
Bush, George H. W., 70, 86, 100, 105, 132, 230
Cruz’s meeting with, 187–91
Cruz’s Texas attorney general campaign and, 189–91, 195
presidential campaigns of, 113, 221, 329
Bush, George P., 187–88
Bush, George W., 118–25, 150n, 187, 231, 233, 239
bank bailouts and, 181
conservatism and, 100, 105, 107–10, 113, 140, 162, 168, 170, 181–82
Cruz’s political ambitions and, 122–23, 133–34, 141
Cruz’s Texas attorney general campaign and, 190–91
Cruz’s wife and, 125, 127–28, 178–79
gun control laws and, 169–70, 256
national debt and, x, xvi
presidential campaigns of, 99–100, 103–22, 124–25, 127–30, 133, 161, 189–91, 329
presidential library of, 190–91
Texas sovereignty and, 139–40, 161–68
Bush v. Palm Beach County, 120
Cairo, 286–87,289
California, xxvi, 236, 247, 251
Cruz’s wife and, 125–27, 129, 246
gubernatorial campaigns in, 174–78, 201
Pledge of Allegiance case and, 147–48
Callaghan, Jim, 318
campaign financing, xxi, 227, 326
Bush and, 104, 110
Cruz’s senatorial campaign and, 200–202, 214–15
free speech and, 313–15
Canada, 30–32, 123–24, 234, 260, 266
capital punishment, 180, 183–84
emergency execution stays and, 92–94
Medellín case and, 160–61, 167
Carter, Jimmy, 35, 161–62, 267, 289, 291, 304, 324, 329, 333
Carvin, Mike, 100–101, 113–14
Castro, Fidel, 1–5, 35, 55
Cruz’s father’s speeches and, 192–93
Cuban revolution and, 5, 11–13, 15, 18–19, 85
El Coco and, 1–3
and U.S. visitors to Cuba, 20
Castro, Raul, 3–4, 328
Catholics, 26, 28n, 310
Cekine, Albert, 26
Cekine, Dominic, 25
Cekine, Mary Lunergen, 25–26
Cheney, Dick, 162, 170
child abuse, 172, 180, 308
child pornography, 250–51
China, 288, 339
Cruz’s private law practice and, 183, 208–9
Cruz’s senatorial campaign and, 208–10, 216
Obamacare and, 271
Christians, Christianity, 25, 28n, 31–32, 35, 45, 50, 65, 126, 172, 179, 187, 206, 289, 294
Coptic, 290
Cruz’s IDC speech and, 302–4
and promise of America, 334
Christopher, George, 174
Christopher, Warren, 117
Citizens United, 314–15
Civil War, 23–24, 194
Clark, Ed, 23
Clay Road Baptist Church, 31–32
Clement, Paul:
gun control laws and, 169
Medellín case and, 162–63, 165–66
Clinton, Bill, 84, 86, 98, 162, 229, 292–93, 309, 312, 329
government shutdown and, 278
impeachment of, 101
presidential campaigns of, 221
Clinton, Hillary, 54, 229, 233, 235, 288, 304, 314–15
Benghazi attack and, 289
health care and, 267
Iran and, 293
presidential campaigns of, 202, 334
and promise of America, 328, 334
Cliosophic Society, 60–61
“Clipping the Wings of Angels” (Cruz), 67
CNN, 99, 279–80
coffee party movement, 265–66, 283
coffins, 131–32
Cold War, 3, 19, 47, 50, 230, 323
Coleman, Donald, 68–69
Coleman, Greg, 141
Common Core, 327
communists, communism, 1–2, 230, 318, 327
Cruz’s senatorial campaign and, 209–10
Cuba and, 12, 18–20, 77, 85
Compromise of 1850, 259–60
Confederate States of America, 22–25
Congress, U.S., 38, 53, 149, 154, 185, 296, 306–10, 317
Bush’s presidential campaign and, 105–6
campaign financing and, 313–14
Cuba and, 6, 19
free speech and, 312–14
government shutdown and, 276–82
Congress, U.S. (cont.)
gun control laws and, 170–71, 245–51, 254–55, 257–58
IMF and, 297
insider trading by members of, 54
Iran nuclear ambitions and, 167
Medellín case and, 161, 164–65
national debt and, x–xi, xxii–xxiii
Obamacare and, 261–65, 267, 271, 273–83, 306–7
pornography and, 94
and promise of America, 326, 337
welfare and, 309
see also House of Representatives, U.S.; Senate, U.S.
conservatives, conservatism, xiv–xvi, xxiv–xxv, 28, 80, 87–89, 100–101, 136, 176, 184, 186, 192–200, 314, 316
British, 318–20
Bush and, 100, 105, 107–10, 113, 140, 162, 168, 170, 181–82
compassionate, 181–82
constitutional, xvi, 225
and Cruz as Texas solicitor general, 146–47, 151, 162, 166, 168–71, 173
Cruz’s education and, 61, 64–65, 75, 77
Cruz’s senatorial campaign and, 195, 198–200, 203–7, 214
Cruz’s senatorial career and, 225, 228, 230–31, 237–39
Cruz’s Texas attorney general campaign, 192–93
cultural, 110
fiscal, xiv
media’s treatment of, 237–39
Obamacare and, 263, 267, 275–76
opportunity, 169, 182, 335
and promise of America, 329, 331–32, 334–38, 340
Constitution, Tex., 149, 194
Constitution, U.S., xvi, 23, 40, 140, 197
Article I, section 8 of, 38
Article I, section 9, clause 7 of, 280
campaign financing and, 227
Clinton’s impeachment and, 101
and Cruz as Texas solicitor general, 146, 152–56, 158, 162–63, 166–73, 180, 206, 317
Cruz’s education and, 38–39, 67, 72
Cruz’s essay on, 65–67
Cruz’s private law practice and, 183
Cruz’s senatorial campaign and, 200, 204, 206, 211
Cruz’s speeches and, 38–39
drones and, 240–41, 245
Equal Protection Clause of, 119–20
Establishment Clause of, 155, 158, 311
Free Exercise of Religion Clause of, 310–11
gun control laws and, 168–71, 245, 247–55, 257–58
Madison and, 60–61, 84
Medellín case and, 162–63, 166–67
Obama and, 305–6, 310–12, 314, 317, 326, 340
Obamacare and, 249, 273
Pledge of Allegiance case and, 147–48, 155
pornography and, 94
and presidential election of 2000, 119–21
and promise of America, 322–23, 326, 334, 340
Recess Appointments Clause of, 311
slavery and, 261
Ten Commandments case and, 155–56, 158
Texas redistricting litigation and, 149, 152–54
Constitution, U.S., amendments to:
First Amendment to, 101, 147, 156, 158, 227, 247–48, 250–51, 310, 312–15, 326
Second Amendment to, 54, 168–72, 206, 245, 247–48, 252, 254–55, 257–58, 326
Fourth Amendment to, 247–48, 310, 326
Fifth Amendment to, 316, 326
Ninth Amendment to, 65–66
Tenth Amendment to, 65–66, 306, 326
Fourteenth Amendment to, 119, 168
Constitutional Corroborators, 38
consumer protection, 124, 131, 311
contact lenses, 131–32
continuing resolutions (CRs), 273, 278–79
Coolidge, Calvin, xxv–xxvi, 329
Cooper, Chuck, 100–101
Cooper & Carvin, 100–101, 104n
Cornyn, John, 141, 186, 231, 298
Council of Europe, 123–24
Court of Appeals, U.S., 88
Cruz’s clerking at, 70, 80–82
Cruz’s private law practice and, 182–84
gun control laws and, 170, 250
and Pledge of Allegiance case, 147
Ten Commandments case and, 154–56, 158
crimes, criminal justice, 11, 70, 73–75, 84, 93, 101–2, 104, 171–72, 221, 232, 294, 310
Cruz’s private law practice and, 183–84
cyber-, 123–24
gun control laws and, 245–48, 252–54, 256–57
Medellín case and, 160–61, 163–64, 167
see also sexual assault
Crist, Charlie, 211, 228
Crossroads, 196
Crucible, The (Miller), 76
Cruz, Agustin and Maria, 7
Cruz, Caroline Camille (daughter), xxvi, 179–80, 252
father’s filibuster and, 264–65
Cruz, Catherine (daughter), xxvi, 226–27, 252, 264
Cruz, Eleanor Darragh (mother), 14–15, 25–35, 336
bankruptcy of, 51–52, 58, 103
computer programming career of, 27–28, 30–31, 40
drinking of, 31–32
education of, 26–29, 52, 127
first marriage of, 29–30
and oil and gas
industry, 27–28, 30–31, 49–52
religious beliefs of, 31–32, 35
and son’s childhood and adolescence, 29–30, 33–35, 38, 40–42, 44–45, 49, 58, 265
son’s education and, 52, 56, 59
son’s senatorial career and, 226
Cruz, Heidi Nelson (wife), xxvi, 4–5, 111, 134, 251
background of, 125–29, 178
Bush’s presidential campaign and, 125, 127–28
businesses of, 126–27, 179–80
children of, 179–80, 227
gun control laws and, 246, 252–53
and husband as Texas solicitor general, 141–43
husband’s courtship of, 125, 127–29
husband’s senatorial campaign and, 212, 214
husband’s Texas attorney general campaign and, 187, 189, 191
Cruz, Heidi Nelson (wife) (cont.)
marriage of, 129–30, 143, 179, 187, 212
NSC tenure of, 161, 178
religious beliefs of, 179
speeches of, 128
Cruz, Laudelina Diaz (grandmother), 8–9, 16–17, 18n, 19
Cruz, Miriam (half sister), 44, 101–3
Cruz, Rafael (grandfather), 7–10, 14–16, 18n, 45
Cruz, Rafael Bienvenido (father), 25, 125
bankruptcy of, 51–52, 58, 103
birth of, 9
charitableness of, 50
Cuba and, 5–10, 12–21, 57, 67, 77, 85, 192–93, 212, 216, 336
daughter’s problems and, 102–3
drinking of, 31–32
English learned by, 17–18
first marriage of, 101–2
Obamacare and, 271–72
and oil and gas industry, 30–31, 49–52
religious beliefs of, 31–32, 50, 52
and son’s childhood and adolescence, 33–35, 38, 40–42, 44–45, 48–49
son’s education and, 47–48, 52, 56–59, 67
son’s senatorial campaign and, 212–13, 216
son’s senatorial career and, 222
speeches of, 18, 192–93, 213
Cruz, Roxana (half sister), 101, 103
Cruz, Sonia Lourdes (aunt), 9, 16, 18, 55, 59, 103
Cruz, Ted:
ambitions of, xv, 39–40, 60, 63, 65, 67, 71–72, 75–77, 79–80, 83–86, 122–23, 133–34, 141, 180–82
awards and honors of, 62, 206
birth of, 30
Bush’s presidential campaigns and, 100, 103–16, 118–22, 124, 127–30, 133, 161, 189–91
business of, 41–42
campaign ads and, 207–10, 216–17
campaign financing and, 227
on capital punishment, 92–94
childhood and adolescence of, 14–15, 29–49, 57–58, 65, 71–72, 89, 102, 122, 238, 265
