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Ted Cruz: “You gave a speech in April of 2015 at the University of…”

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Ted Cruz asks Ketanji Brown Jackson about critical race theory

Published | Video Starts at 07:35

But I've never studied critical race theory, and I've never used it. It doesn't come up in the work that I do as a judge. So with respect, I find that a curious statement because You gave a speech in April of 2015 at the University of Chicago in which you described the job you do as a judge. And you said sentencing is just plain interesting because it melds together myriad types of law, criminal law, and, of course, constitutional law, critical race theory. So you described in a speech to a law school what you were doing as critical race theory. And so I guess I would ask, what did you mean by that when you gave that speech? (07:35–07:54)

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