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WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas), member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, today led a bicameral amicus brief with his Republican colleagues in the case of 303 Creative LLC v. Elenis, calling for the Supreme Court to review a circuit court decision that prohibits a Colorado business owner from exercising her free speech and religious liberty rights. The petitioner, Lorie Smith, runs the website design company 303 Creative and cannot provide custom services for same-sex...

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas), member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, today questioned Attorney General (AG) Merrick Garland in a committee hearing on oversite of the Department of Justice (DOJ).  In his first line of questioning, Sen. Cruz asked about the DOJ’s recent memorandum directing the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) to pursue parents who oppose critical race theory (CRT) in schools and a possible conflict of interest from AG...

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas), member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, today released the following video in advance of Attorney General (AG) Merrick Garland’s testimony before the committee today, demanding AG Garland answer five crucial questions. Read the full transcript below. “Ten months into the Joe Biden administration, Attorney General Merrick Garland is finally testifying before the Senate Judiciary Committee. We need answers from Merrick Garland...

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas), member of the Senate Commerce Committee, today participated in a Communications Subcommittee hearing on the negative effects of TikTok, Snapchat, and YouTube on children. In the hearing, Sen. Cruz asked Michael Beckerman, TikTok’s head of public policy for the Americas, numerous times about whether TikTok considers one of their sister companies, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP)-affiliated Beijing ByteDance Technology Co., an...

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Sens. Ted Cruz (R-Texas), member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, and Bill Hagerty (R-Tenn.), along with 34 of their Republican colleagues, today introduced the Upholding the 1995 Jerusalem Embassy Law Act of 2021, a bill to protect the full and faithful implementation of the Jerusalem Embassy Act of 1995 and block the Biden Administration’s efforts to subvert the law. Cosponsors include Sens. John Barrasso (R-Wyo.), Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.), John...

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Sens. Ted Cruz (R-Texas), John Cornyn (R-Texas), Chris Coons (D-Del.), John Kennedy (R-La.), Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.), Jon Ossoff (D-Ga.), Dick Durbin (D-Ill.), and Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), members of the Senate Judiciary Committee, today introduced the Courthouse Ethics and Transparency Act to require online publication of financial disclosure reports for federal judges and to mandate that federal judges submit periodic transaction reports for...

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas), member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, issued the following statement after Biden-Harris officials slammed Israel for designating six groups that served as fronts for the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine in accordance with Israel’s 2016 Anti-Terrorism Law: “This unwarranted and false criticism yet again highlights the reflexive antipathy that President Biden’s State Department and Biden-Harris...

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Sens. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) and John Cornyn (R-Texas), members of the Senate Judiciary Committee, sent a letter to President Biden supporting Gov. Abbott’s appeal of the president’s denial of a federal emergency declaration as a result of the unprecedented crisis on the southern border. Last month, Sens. Cruz and Cornyn sent a letter in support of Gov. Abbott’s initial request for an emergency declaration. The Biden administration denied the...

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Sens. Ted Cruz (R-Texas), Tim Scott (R-S.C.), Mike Crapo (R-Idaho), and Pat Toomey (R-Pa.), along with their Republican colleagues, introduced the Prohibiting IRS Financial Surveillance Act, a bill to prevent the implementation of Democrats’ plan to give the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) access to the banking transaction information of virtually every American. The bill is cosponsored by Sens. Tom Cotton (R-Ark.), John Boozman (R-Ark.), Mitch McConnell...

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Sens. Ted Cruz (R-Texas), member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, Ron Johnson (R-Wis.), Mike Lee (R-Utah), and 64 of their Republican colleagues submitted public comment to President Biden’s proposed rule that would illegally upend the process by which the U.S. government hears asylum claims. This rule, if finalized, would lead to the dispersion of potentially hundreds of thousands of illegal aliens into the interior each year in violation of federal law,...

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Sens. Ted Cruz (R-Texas), Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.), Tom Cotton (R-Ark.), Thom Tillis (R-N.C.), James Lankford (R-Okla.), Mike Braun (R-Ind.), Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), Joni Ernst (R-Iowa), Marco Rubio (R-Fla.), Josh Hawley (R-Mo.), and Tim Scott (R-S.C.) today introduced the Campus Free Speech Resolution of 2021 to lead the fight for greater First Amendment protection at public universities. Upon introduction, Sen. Cruz said: “College campuses are no longer a...

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas), member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, this week joined Fox News’ ‘Hannity’ to discuss the Biden-Harris border crisis and his new bill, the Stop the SURGE Act, to establish new ports of entry in 13 communities across the country. Read highlights of his interview below. On the Biden-Harris administration’s effort to hide the border crisis in South Texas, Sen. Cruz said: “Joe Biden, Kamala Harris have a...

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Sens. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) and John Cornyn (R-Texas), along with Rep. Ronny Jackson (R-Texas), today introduced a resolution commemorating the 80th anniversary of the opening of Sheppard Air Force Base and the 40th anniversary of the Euro-NATO Joint Jet Pilot Training (ENJJPT) Program. Sheppard AFB is the Air Force’s premier training installation, producing thousands of graduates annually. It is home to the 82nd Training Wing and the 80th Flying Training...

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas), member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, spoke to The National Review’s Jimmy Quinn about his leadership in the Senate urging President Biden to impose Congressionally mandated, bipartisan sanctions on Russia’s Nord Stream 2 pipeline—a project that if completed would threaten the national security of the United States and our allies. In response to President Biden’s refusal to impose these sanctions, Sen....

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Sens. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) and John Cornyn (R-Texas), along with U.S. Rep. August Pfluger (R-Texas), today sent a bipartisan, bicameral letter with other members of the Texas Congressional Delegation to the recently confirmed U.S. Ambassador to Mexico Ken Salazar. In the letter, the lawmakers draw attention to Mexico’s discriminatory actions that violate the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA), and urge Ambassador Salazar to directly engage with senior...

WASHINGTON, D.C. – As Texas Border Patrol Sectors are flooded with historic numbers of illegal aliens pouring into the country, U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas), a member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, today introduced the Stop the SURGE Act to demand President Biden, his administration, and Congressional Democrats address the unprecedented man-made crisis on the South Texas border and their political decisions that directly created it. This legislation would establish new ports...

WASHINGTON, D.C. –  U.S. Sens. Ted Cruz (R-Texas), Ranking Member of the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on The Constitution, and James Lankford (R-Okla.) today filed an amicus brief signed by 11 other Senators and 14 Representatives in support of Coach Joe Kennedy in Kennedy v. Bremerton School District. The brief asks the Supreme Court toreverse the Ninth Circuit’s decision that allowed Coach Kennedy to be fired for silently kneeling and praying after school football games. U.S....

WASHINGTON, D.C. – As Texas Border Patrol Sectors are flooded with historic numbers of illegal aliens pouring into the country, U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas), a member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, today introduced the Stop the SURGE Act to demand President Biden, his administration, and Congressional Democrats address the unprecedented man-made crisis on the South Texas border and their political decisions that directly created it. This legislation would establish new ports...

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) today issued the following statement on the passing of former Secretary of State Colin Powell: “Heidi and I send our deepest condolences to the family and loved ones of General Colin Powell during this time of mourning. As our nation’s first African American Secretary of State, Powell’s life was as historic as it was extraordinary. In his tenure as Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and throughout his remarkable career,...