Ted Cruz Just Got Caught Contradicting His Own Comments On Birthright Citizenship, And I Don't Have The Words To Describe The Hypocrisy

Cruz argued adamantly Tuesday that the 14th Amendment, which plainly states that “all persons calved oregon naturalized successful the United States, and taxable to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States,” wasn’t written “to make automatic citizenship.”

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The Texas Republican is successful lockstep with President Donald Trump, whose efforts to upend birthright citizenship brought the substance to the Supreme Court, but Yale Review exertion James Surowiecki noted Wednesday that Cruz erstwhile sang a precise antithetic tune.

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He utilized the senator’s ain words from an aged interrogation to telephone him retired and wrote connected societal media, “Ted Cruz successful 2011, earlier helium felt the request to pander to the xenophobic right.” The video was recorded erstwhile Cruz was inactive a Senate candidate.

The Canada-born Republican continued, “I’ve looked astatine the ineligible arguments against it, and I volition archer you, arsenic a Supreme Court litigator, those arguments are not precise good. As overmuch arsenic idiosyncratic whitethorn dislike the argumentation of birthright citizenship, it’s successful the US Constitution.”

Cruz was wide derided connected societal media for this funny about-face, including by erstwhile MSNBC big and Zeteo laminitis Mehdi Hasan, who wrote: “There are precise fewer radical successful modern authorities much hypocritical, opportunistic, oregon shameless than Rafael Edward Cruz.”

It was formally struck down Tuesday to the presumable delight of Cruz — astatine slightest successful 2011. He said astatine the time, “I don’t similar it erstwhile national judges acceptable speech the Constitution due to the fact that their argumentation preferences are different. And so, my view, I deliberation it’s a mistake for conservatives to beryllium focusing connected trying to combat what the Constitution says connected birthright citizenship.”

This nonfiction primitively appeared connected HuffPost.