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Lyin' Ted Falsehoods About Garland Corrected By Senate Judiciary Chair
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Reprinted with permission from Alternet
Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX) voted with many of his Republican colleagues on the Senate Judiciary Committee against confirming Judge Merrick Garland to be the next Attorney General, and did so in a speech designed for the Fox News and OANN cameras – and the fact-checkers. In short, most of Cruz's claims were lies, easily smacked down by Committee Chairman Dick Durbin (D-IL).
<p>"Not only did he refuse to answer questions at the hearing," Senator Cruz said falsely, "not only did he refuse to answer questions for the record, but Judge Garland is also one of the few Biden Cabinet nominees refusing to take in person meetings with Senators – categorically refusing to take them. Multiple other Biden nominees are taking them."</p>
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<p>Later Cruz stretched his falsehood into an outright and extended lie, claiming Judge Garland "essentially refused to answer all questions," and saying, "on question after question after question Judge Garland refused to answer virtually anything."</p>
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<p>Judge Garland, who is 68, decided he did not want to risk in-person meetings during the pandemic. He offered to meet via Zoom, as Judiciary Committee Chairman Dick Durbin later explained to Cruz, noting that Cruz refused to meet on Zoom with him. Every Republican in the U.S. Senate in 2016 refused to meet with Garland when he was a Supreme Court nominee.</p><p>"If he's not willing to answer questions, now, before he's confirmed, the likelihood of his being willing to answer questions after he was confirmed is only smaller on the response to the questions," Cruz went on to say.</p><p>Again, Chairman Durbin reminded Cruz that Republicans sent Garland in writing nearly 850 questions, including 127 from Cruz. Garland answered them all. As he did in his in-person confirmation hearing, when he did not know the answer, he said so.</p>
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<p><iframe src="https://platform.twitter.com/embed/Tweet.html?dnt=false&embedId=twitter-widget-0&frame=false&hideCard=false&hideThread=false&id=1366469444755738627&lang=en&origin=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.alternet.org%2F2021%2F03%2Fted-cruz-merrick-garland%2F&partner=rebelmouse&theme=light&widgetsVersion=889aa01%3A1612811843556&width=550px" style="vertical-align: middle; max-width: 100%; position: static; visibility: visible; width: 550px; height: 290px; flex-grow: 1;" title="Twitter Tweet"></iframe></p><p><br/></p><p>Chairman Durbin politely smacked down Cruz's claims.</p><p>In the end, Garland was reported positively out of committee, 15-7.</p><div class="rm-shortcode shortcode-media shortcode-media-twitter_embed" data-rm-shortcode-id="34342711ff5e7ae24be0bf2c125be763" id="3dd0c"><div class="twitter-tweet twitter-tweet-rendered" style="display: flex; max-width: 550px; width: 100%; margin-top: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px;"><iframe allowfullscreen="true" allowtransparency="true" class="" data-tweet-id="1366458098412642311" frameborder="0" id="twitter-widget-0" scrolling="no" src="https://platform.twitter.com/embed/Tweet.html?dnt=false&embedId=twitter-widget-0&frame=false&hideCard=false&hideThread=false&id=1366458098412642311&lang=en&origin=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.nationalmemo.com%2Fr%2Fentryeditor%2F2650862039%23publish&partner=rebelmouse&theme=light&widgetsVersion=889aa01%3A1612811843556&width=550px" style="position: static; visibility: visible; width: 405px; height: 386px; display: block; flex-grow: 1;" title="Twitter Tweet"></iframe></div></div><p> Watch Sen. Cruz:</p><p><br/></p><div class="rm-shortcode" data-rm-shortcode-id="51633bb19099dd289f263e7e8702ef98" id="32069">
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<div style="margin:1em 0">Ted Cruz in 2021:
“[Merrick] Garland is…refusing to take in-person meetings with senators.”
(Durbin notes Garland… https://t.co/6vfo3eoa4M</div> — JM Rieger (@JM Rieger)
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