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Ted Cruz: “It was directly contrary to 18 USC section 1507. It was a…”

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

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'That's What Judge Boasberg Signed Off On': Ted Cruz Rails Against DC Judge

Published | Video Starts at 04:32

For four years during the Biden doj, we saw the Department of Justice refused to enforce the law when violent protesters were outside the homes of Supreme Court justices. It was directly contrary to 18 USC section 1507. It was a felony on national television being committed over and over and over again. And Merrick Garland, a road rogue partisan attorney general, refused to enforce the law. Why? Because he supported the objectives of the protesters. That kind of hypocrisy. Let me be clear. (04:32–04:41)

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Asserts that protests outside justices' homes violated 18 USC section 1507 and were felonies.

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