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Ted Cruz: “By taking NDAs off the table for forcing victims of child…”

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

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Trey's Law—Protecting the Victims of Child Sex Abuse

Published | Video Starts at 20:28

There aren't settlement agreements that say, as a condition of the settlement, you have to deal crack cocaine, because dealing crack cocaine is illegal. And so you can't agree in a settlement to do something that is illegal. By taking NDAs off the table for forcing victims of child sex abuse to not be able to disclose what happened to them, that incentive for their lawyers to pressure them to do this will go away. Likewise, and. And importantly, we drafted Trey's Law so that a victim can still insist on an NDA for the abuser. If a victim decides, I don't want my story told, that that's your right as well. (20:28–20:44)

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Asserts that removing NDAs will eliminate the incentive for lawyers to pressure victims into silence.

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