And I've spent a lot of my career fighting against child sexual abuse. So when I was the Solicitor General of Texas, I argued in front of the U.S. Supreme Court defending Louisiana's law that provided for capital punishment, the death penalty for the most egregious child rapist. Unfortunately, the Supreme Court, five, four, struck that down. So we did not prevail in that case. Texas's law was also struck down. (22:56–23:07)
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Asserts that Ted Cruz defended Louisiana's law for the death penalty for child rapists at the U.S. Supreme Court.
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