Why Ted Cruz watched pornography with Supreme Court justices
Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) has a new book out Tuesday, titled "A Time for Truth." It is an autobiography that weaves in his conservative philosophy and expounds on some of the stories he tells on the campaign trail. Cruz writes the arc of his life, including his time as a Supreme Court clerk, working on George W. Bush's presidential campaign, his Senate race and the government shutdown.
Cruz gets personal during the book. Here are a few things we learn about the senator from Texas.
1. Cruz watched pornography with Supreme Court justices
Cruz served as a law clerk to then Supreme Court Chief Justice William Rehnquist. One day, he was standing behind Rehnquist and Justice Sandra Day O'Connor.
"We were in front of a large computer screen gazing at explicit, hard-core pornography," Cruz wrote.
The reason? The court was considering a case challenging a law that regulated online porn. The clerks were older and not well-versed in the Internet, so court librarians set up a tutorial for the justices and their clerks on how easy it was to find porn online. Cruz watched as the librarian typed in the word "cantaloupe," though it was misspelled.
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