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Ted Cruz: “The UCLA School of Law, Williams Institute estimates more…”

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 23:19

I was looking at four different kinds of laws and not all of them did I say were punitive. Okay, so let's take civil commitments laws. If you look at civil commitment laws Right now, The UCLA School of Law, Williams Institute estimates more than 6,300 sex offenders are currently detained in civil commitment programs. If the view you advocated prevailed, presumably those 6,300 sex offenders would be released to the public. Is that an outcome that should be concerning? (23:19–23:29)

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Asserts that over 6,300 sex offenders are detained in civil commitment programs according to UCLA's Williams Institute.

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