Cruz has been in senate what 3 years? Before that he was solicitor general of Texas. Do not know what he did before that. He seems a newbie in elected political office.
In the Senate, Ted serves on the Committee on Commerce,.... Science, and Transportation;.... the Committee on Armed Services; ....the Committee on the Judiciary;... the Joint Economic Committee;.... and the Committee on Rules and Administration.
Ted was the nation’s youngest Solicitor General, and the ‘longest serving Solicitor General in Texas.
Prior to becoming Solicitor General, he served as the Director of the Office of Policy Planning at the Federal Trade Commission, as Associate Deputy Attorney General at the U.S. Department of Justice.
In private practice in Houston, Ted spent five years as a partner at one of the nation’s largest law firms, where HE LED the firm’s U.S. Supreme Court and national Appellate Litigation practice.
Ted has authored more than 80 U.S. Supreme Court briefs and argued 43 oral arguments, including nine before the U.S. Supreme Court.
During Ted’s service as Solicitor General, Texas achieved an unprecedented series of landmark national victories, including successfully defending:
• U.S. sovereignty against the UN and the World Court in Medellin v. Texas;
• The Second Amendment right to keep and bear arms;
• The constitutionality of the Texas Ten Commandments monument;
• The constitutionality of the words “under God” in the Pledge of Allegiance;
• The constitutionality of the Texas Sexually Violent Predator Civil Commitment law; and
• The Texas congressional redistricting plan.
Ted has been named by American Lawyer magazine as one of the 50 Best Litigators under 45 in America, by the National Law Journal as one of the 50 Most Influential Minority Lawyers in America, and by Texas Lawyer as one of the 25 Greatest Texas Lawyers of the Past Quarter Century.
From 2004-09, he taught U.S. Supreme Court Litigation as an Adjunct Professor of Law at the University of Texas School of Law.