The Cloakroom Preview: A response to Chief Justice Roberts
The Ben Ferguson Podcast
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🗓️ 5 July 2022
⏱️ 14 minutes
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This is a special preview of The Cloakroom, a series made exclusively for Verdict+. Join Senator Ted Cruz and Liz Wheeler each week as they pull back the curtain on the philosophy that informs our political debates, the stories that are reshaping our culture, and the legal principles at play on America’s stage and beyond. Become a Verdict+ subscriber to get exclusive access: https://verdictwithtedcruz.com/plus.
Following the release of the Dobbs opinion and the Chief Justice's decision to not overturn Roe v. Wade, Alan Dershowitz advocates for the same concept, calling the overturning of Roe “judicial activism.” Today on The Cloakroom, Senator Ted Cruz joins Liz to explore whether Dershowitz or Roberts are right in their call for judicial restraint and examine the legal reasons that may dismantle the Chief Justice’s arguments. Plus, will we ever find out the identity of the leaker?
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to a special interview of the cloakroom, a series with Liz Wheeler and Senator Ted Cruz exclusively for Verdict Plus subscribers. |
| 0:08.3 | Each week, Liz is joined by Senator Ted Cruz to pull back the curtain on the philosophy that informs our political debates, |
| 0:14.9 | the stories that are reshaping our culture, and the legal principles at play on America's stage and beyond. |
| 0:21.4 | To hear more of the cloakroom, become a verdict plus subscriber at verdict with |
| 0:25.1 | Ted Cruz.com slash plus. |
| 0:28.1 | All right. |
| 0:28.5 | Welcome back, everyone. |
| 0:29.5 | I'm Liz Wheeler. |
| 0:30.2 | This is The Cloak Room on Verdict Plus. |
| 0:32.0 | I'm sitting here with Senator Ted Cruz. |
| 0:34.0 | And this is such an amazing, insane time to be alive in our country. Roe v. Wade has just |
| 0:39.2 | been overturned by the Supreme Court. And I don't know about you, Senator, but when I saw this news, |
| 0:44.5 | I was obviously following the Supreme Court issuing their opinions. And I'm on the West Coast |
| 0:49.0 | right now. I'm out in Santa Barbara, California. So it was early in the morning. It was just after |
| 0:52.1 | 7 a.m. And I start frantically texting our |
| 0:54.8 | producers, are you awake? Are you asleep? Do you see what's happening? This is absolutely bananas. |
| 0:59.3 | I don't think I'm ever going to forget that moment. Yeah, no, it was, it was extraordinary. |
| 1:03.3 | I was in D.C. at the time, I had the night before we had been laid on the Senate floor |
| 1:08.3 | battling over gun control. And then after that, I had gone and filmed |
| 1:14.9 | a verdict. So we had Thursday night, we did a verdict at 1230 at night. So we finished it at, |
| 1:21.7 | I think I got home about two in the morning. And so Friday morning, I was still in D.C. I was in my apartment and saw the |
| 1:29.9 | opinion came down. And shortly thereafter, I had a flight to Milwaukee. I'm in Milwaukee right now |
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