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Ted Cruz: “Critical Race Theory has its origins in the Critical Legal…”

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 06:30

It's never something that I've studied or relied on, and it wouldn't be something that I would rely on if I was on the Supreme Court. So Critical Race Theory has its origins in the Critical Legal Studies movement, which also came from Harvard Law School. from a number of Critical Legal Studies professors, Crits, as they were known when we were in law school, who are explicitly Marxists, and they find their origins in Marxism. (06:30–06:49)

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