John Cornyn
John Cornyn is a U.S. senator from Texas, former Texas attorney general and former justice on the Texas Supreme Court. He earlier served as a Bexar County state district judge.
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Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson called former President George W. Bush and former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld as “war criminals in a legal filing.”
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"100,000 Americans died of an overdose in a single year."
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Says Democratic senators were missing “masks” as they huddled close together at the Judiciary Committee hearing for Amy Coney Barrett.
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Says he “strongly supports legalization for Dreamers.”
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Says “no one under the age of 20 has died of the coronavirus. We still don’t know whether children can get it and transmit it…
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The United States has not completed a “top-to-bottom review of our criminal justice system at the national level since 1965.”
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“China is to blame because the culture where people eat bats and snakes and dogs and things like that, these viruses are transmitted from the…
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Says Royce West stood with Wendy Davis "to support painful late-term abortions."
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"Texas remains one of the most severely impacted states from drug trafficking. Nearly 3,000 Texans died from drug related deaths in 2017 – with half…
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Says that under the Obamacare law, health insurance "premiums have increased by more than 105 percent since" 2013.