Ted Cruz: “I led a coalition of states before the U.S. supreme Court…”

“So for example, in the question you just asked me, I talked about the Obama administration's policies shutting down drilling because of a lizard in West Texas. As the Solicitor General of Texas, I led a coalition of states before the U.S. supreme Court, asking the Supreme Court to strike down the Endangered Species act as it applied to an arroyo toad in California. where litigation was being used to shut down development. I talked about the offshore drilling moratorium.” (06:38–06:50)

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