And most lawyers do not hear this from a Supreme Court Justice...
Justice Kennedy speaking to Ted Cruz, “Is there some rule that you can’t confess error in your state?”
DRETKE v. HALEY https://www.oyez.org/cases/2003/02-1824
argued March 2, 2004, Opinion of the Supreme Court Announced May 3, 2004 (Summary: Ted Cruz fought to keep a man in jail for 16 years for stealing a calculator from Wal-Mart, Cruz lost his argument before the Supreme Court as He has many, many times, see his bio page at Oyez by clicking R. Cruz under Advocates...argued for the petitioner)
Also, from the NYT, January 2016
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/01/12/opinion/the-brutalism-of-ted-cruz.html?_r=0
The case reveals something interesting about Cruz’s character. Ted Cruz is now running strongly among evangelical voters, especially in Iowa. But in his career and public presentation Cruz is a stranger to most of what would generally be considered the Christian virtues: humility, mercy, compassion and grace. Cruz’s behavior in the Haley case is almost the dictionary definition of pharisaism: an overzealous application of the letter of the law in a way that violates the spirit of the law, as well as fairness and mercy.
I know I’d MUCH rather have him as my lawyer that I would you.
thanks for posting that.
It was reading about that case, Dretke vs Haley, that made me first sit back and go, what is with this guy? In hindsight it’s almost like he intentionally took it to the Supremes for political points in the future. On a calculation that an ‘average’ voter wouldn’t dig into his individual Supremes cases and accept he was a Supremes ‘winner’ at face value.