Hi guys, Liz Wheeler here. So after we finish recording verdict every week, Senator Cruz and I sit down and get into the nitty-gritty of it all on our Verdict Plus series called The Cloak Room, where we look at political issues through a specifically legal lens. And what I want to do today is offer you a sneak preview of the latest episode of

the cloakroom on verdict plus you can also join us on a weekly basis by going to

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And without further ado, here's a sneak preview of the cloakroom on Verdict Plus.

Hi, guys. Welcome back to another episode of The Cloak Room. I'm Liz Wheeler. I'm sitting here

with Senator Ted Cruz. And Senator, I want to start today just by saying, congratulations.

We did it again. The left,

the mainstream media is up in arms over something we talked about right here in the cloakroom

last week, the cancellation of student loan debt. So I think we should start the show just by

welcoming the Washington Post and Business Insider, who wrote an article about your comments,

your legal analysis of whether what Biden did with his

executive order, canceling student loan debt, whether it's legal. They joined the ranks of CNN and MSNBC

who came to Verdict Plus last month when we were talking about Obergefell because of what Clarence Thomas

wrote in the Dobbs, in his Dobbs concurrence. So before we get started on the rank choice voting, which is a fascinating topic that

verdict plus fans have been asking about, I want to ask you, why do you think that the mainstream

media is so up in arms about the legal analysis? Because that's what we were talking about,

right? Not even the politics, the legality of the thing. Do they know that it's illegal?

Well, they seem to. You look at the Washington Post story. They wrote about cloakroom, and they basically acknowledge that it's contrary to the law. But we had an honest and candid discussion about

the legal impediments there would be to getting a court to reach the merits of the dispute,

and in particular the problem of establishing standing. And look, the press likes it when any Republican

discusses any impediment to principled arguments prevailing.

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