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Ted Cruz: “I also defended Texas has a Texas sexually violent predator…”

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 23:15

Unfortunately, the Supreme Court, five, four, struck that down. So we did not prevail in that case. Texas's law was also struck down. When Louisiana's law was struck down, I also defended Texas has a Texas sexually violent predator civil commitment law that gives the courts the ability to take a sexually violent predator and put them in civil commitment. take them off the streets to protect people. And a state court of appeals had struck that law down and concluded it was unconstitutional. (23:15–23:28)

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