Ted Cruz The Victim Of Yet Another Sick Burn From Harvard Law Classmate

It was apparently as difficult to get along with Sen. Cruz back in the 90s as it is today.

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— State Sen. Scott Wiener (D-CA), in a tweet reminding his colleague, Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX), about how “well-liked” he was during their years spent together at Harvard Law. The lawmakers had been duking it out on X concerning Cruz’s opposition to Third Circuit judicial nominee Adeel Mangi, who would be the first-ever Muslim appellate judge if confirmed. During Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson’s confirmation hearings, Wiener said that during law school, “[e]veryone thought [Cruz] was a major jackass.”


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