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Ted Cruz: “20 of the states, the federal government and D.C. have laws…”

Featuring: Ted Cruz, Republican | U.S. Senate, Texas

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Ted Cruz asks Ketanji Brown Jackson about critical race theory

Published | Video Starts at 21:49

47 states have community notification requirements. All 50 states have DNA or blood banks for sex offenders requirements. And 20 of the states, the federal government and D.C. have laws that allow for the indefinite detention of sex offenders. I would note in the state of Texas, a state court of appeals relying on very much the same sort of reasoning you advocated in your not struck down Texas sexually violent predator civil commitment law. (21:49–21:56)

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Asserts that 20 states, the federal government, and D.C. allow indefinite detention of sex offenders.

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