Ted Cruz lays out indictment of Obama encroachment on Texas’ rights
Source: www.dallasnews.com
"WASHINGTON – Sen. Ted Cruz’s disdain for President Obama’s policies is no less ardent than his advocacy of the 10th Amendment – the one protecting states’ rights.
On Tuesday morning, he released a six-page report on “The Obama Administration’s Assault on Texas,” highlighting some of the legal friction points between the state and federal governments and warning that Obama has sought to expand federal power at the expense of states, especially Texas.
This isn’t a scholarly legal analysis, though Cruz – a former law clerk to a chief justice of the United States – is certainly capable of that. Rather it’s more of a political indictment and set of talking points for anyone primed to be riled at Washington overreach, as Cruz fans tend to be.
It decries the “expansive view of federal power in litigation against the State of Texas,” focusing on 10 cases that “show a consistent pattern of an Administration bent on displacing State sovereignty.”
Among the outrages Cruz highlights was the attempt to force states to expand Medicaid under Obamacare; the Supreme Court tossed out that element of the health care law 7-2.
Cruz also cites the Justice Department’s “unconstitutional preclearance of Texas’s redistricting plans.” That requires something of a chronological leap of faith, in that the Justice Department had been challenging election changes in Texas and eight other states for decades under the authority of the Voting Rights Act. That didn’t change until last June, when the Supreme Court tossed out a key part of the law — the formula that singled out states deserving of extra scrutiny based on a history of systematic bias."
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More over the top craziness from Texas Senator Ted Cruz. Texans elected this man to office, and they deserve the disdain for the state from the rest of the nation.
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but then you decided to go Texas-bashing in your last comment. I didn't do a damn thing to get Ted Cruz elected and I don't deserved to be included into any group that deserves disdain from people like you. 
He introduced the cows to the boys? 
If they hate America why don't they just STFU and go back to Cubanada?
