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WASHINGTON, DC -- U.S. Senators John Cornyn (R-TX) and Ted Cruz (R-TX) today announced that they are accepting applications for two judicial vacancies in Texas. The Senators established a bipartisan panel of leading attorneys and judges in Texas to help identify the most qualified candidates to fill vacancies. This panel, known as the Federal Judicial Evaluation Committee (FJEC), will review applications, interview candidates, and make recommendations to the Senators. The vacancies are in the...

WASHINGTON, DC -- U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, today named Nick Muzin as senior advisor and deputy chief of staff for strategy, effective Monday, July 14. “Nick’s broad range of experience and networks make him the ideal person to help us craft a positive, forward-looking vision for America and take that message to every corner of the country,” Sen. Cruz said. “I am delighted to have him on our team, and look forward to working together.” Muzin, 38, is a physician...

WASHINGTON, DC -- U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, today released the following statement recognizing the landmark passage of the Civil Rights Act on July 2, 1964. “Today, on the 50th anniversary of the Civil Rights Act, we remember the decisive moment when Republicans and Democrats came together to finally put an end to legal racial segregation and to give all of America’s people full and equal protection under the law,” said Sen. Cruz. “Under the Fourteenth Amendment, our...

WASHINGTON, DC -- U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, today released the fifth report on the Obama Administration’s attempts to expand federal power that documents the many times the Supreme Court has unanimously rejected its legal arguments. Legal Limit No. 1 documented cases decided unanimously against the Obama Administration from January 2012 to June 2013. Today’s fifth report includes all other cases, dating back to January 2009 when Obama was sworn into office, that the Obama...

WASHINGTON, DC -- U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, today released the following statement regarding news that the three Jewish teenagers who had been kidnapped by Hamas have been found dead. “The brutal murder Hamas carried out of three innocent Jewish teenagers is a terrorist-led atrocity that demands justice,” said Sen. Cruz. “While we lift Gilad Shaer, Naftali Frankel, and Eyal Yifrach and their loving families up in prayer, we must also act. Hamas is, unequivocally, a terrorist...

WASHINGTON, DC -- U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, today released the following statement commending the Supreme Court’s decision in Burwell v. Hobby Lobby. “Today the Supreme Court handed our nation a landmark victory for religious liberty.   The decision affirms that Americans, contrary to what the Obama Administration attempted to impose, have a right to live and work in accordance to their conscience and can’t be forced to surrender their religious freedom once they open a...

The facts are clear—the IRS illegally targeted conservative groups. The IRS has admitted it and is paying a fine for it. Yet for over a year, President Obama and Attorney General Holder have failed to bring justice to those who perpetrated this egregious wrong. The IRS’s failure to produce emails from Lois Lerner, the former director of the office responsible for targeting conservatives, its scrutiny of the highest-ranking Republican on the Senate Judiciary Committee, and its...

WASHINGTON, DC -- In response to the growing confusion over disputed land along the Texas-Oklahoma border, U.S. Sens. John Cornyn and Ted Cruz, R-Texas, and U.S. Rep. Mac Thornberry, TX-13, have introduced Senate and House legislation to direct the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) to transfer any land in Texas along the Red River to landowners who can prove through official records that they own the land outright. “The BLM has created concern and confusion along a stretch of the Red River...

WASHINGTON, DC -- U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, today spoke on the Senate floor regarding the kidnapping of three Israeli teens in the West Bank. See excerpts below. “Yet today, it has been reported that Israel’s Shin Bet identified two key suspects in the abduction,” Sen. Cruz said. “These two individuals are members of Hamas, a vicious terrorist organization that seeks Israel’s destruction and has launched thousands of rockets into Israel, killing innocent...

WASHINGTON, DC -- U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, today requested unanimous consent on a resolution calling for the Department of Justice (DOJ) to appoint a special prosecutor to investigate the IRS’s illegal targeting of conservative groups. Additionally, he called for the impeachment of U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder if he fails to appoint a special prosecutor. “Americans need a guarantee that the IRS will never be used again to target an Administration’s political...

WASHINGTON, DC -- U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, today released the following statement regarding the McCullen v. Coakley decision: “The Supreme Court vindicated the First Amendment rights of citizens who peacefully counseled women about alternatives to abortion at a Massachusetts clinic.  Once again, the Supreme Court unanimously rejected the litigating position of the Obama Administration, which opposed free speech rights in an amicus brief.  The Court rightly invalidated a...

WASHINGTON, DC -- U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, today released the following statement regarding the NLRB v. Noel Canning decision: “Today, the Supreme Court invalidated President Obama’s unlawful abuse of the President’s recess appointments power. President Obama ignored the plain text of the Constitution and attempted to make unilateral recess appointments—circumventing the checks and balances of confirmation—when the Senate was not, in fact, in recess. Today, a...

WASHINGTON, DC -- U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, today spoke on the Senate floor calling for bipartisan support for legislation that would allow Meriam Ibrahim to come to America with her husband and two children who are U.S. citizens. “Sudan, two days ago responded to the international pressure and released her,” Sen Cruz said. “Now that they have apparently had a change of heart and forcibly captured her, we need to speak even louder. We need to speak out for Meriam Ibrahim...

WASHINGTON, DC -- U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, today released the following statement lauding the Supreme Court for protecting privacy rights in the decision Riley v. California. “I applaud the Supreme Court’s unanimous decision to protect the rights of all Americans to be free from warrantless searches of their cell phones,” said Sen. Cruz. “This is the eleventh time since January 2012 that the Supreme Court has unanimously rejected the Obama Administration’s...

WASHINGTON, DC -- U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, spoke this morning on Fox and Friends regarding the need for President Obama’s leadership to release Meriam Ibrahim and her family. "Yesterday as she and her family were at the airport preparing to come back to America, armed thugs came in arrested her again and she is right now in captivity," said Sen. Cruz. "We don't know if they're intending to carry out this torture. The most pressing thing we need is we need American leadership, in...

WASHINGTON, DC -- U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, today spoke with Tony Perkins’ ‘Washington Watch’ radio show regarding the re-apprehension of Meriam Ibrahim and her family by the government of Sudan. Highlights are included below: “What I have been begging is for President Obama to stand up and lead, for John Kerry to stand up and lead,” Sen. Cruz said. “Nobody has the bully pulpit like the President of the United States, and the President needs to say to the...

WASHINGTON, DC -- U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, and Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott today toured the facility in San Antonio currently housing increasing numbers of unaccompanied minors that have crossed the Southwest border. Following the tour, Sen. Cruz and Attorney General Abbott held a press conference. “We are witnessing a humanitarian crisis unfolding that is the direct consequence of President Obama’s lawlessness,” Sen. Cruz said. “We just toured this Air Force...