Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, has gone viral for asking pointed questions during Senate hearings… and he promised to do a lot more of that during Congress’ next term.
Cruz went on Newsmax’s John Bachman Now Thursday, and he called for the Senate Judiciary Committee to put Attorney General Merrick Garland on trial.
As a Texan, Cruz began his television appearance by addressing the humanitarian crisis at the southern border, and then he offered a solution: Senate oversight into President Joe Biden’s Cabinet.
“With a Democrat Senate and Democrat House, there is zero oversight,” Cruz observed. “The Senate Judiciary Committee, we ought to be having hearings. We ought to have the head of the FBI, the attorney general explaining why he thought it was fine to send FBI agent’s in to raid Mar-a-Lago to raid [former President Donald Trump’s house. First time in history that’s ever been done! That was an abuse of power, but it’s routine.”
Before long, Cruz launched into his ambitious plans for the future of the Senate.
“I think November is going to be a fantastic election. I think we’re going to win the House, we’re going to win the Senate, and I think one of the very first steps we need is to have real oversight,” Cruz said.
The Republicans are, in fact, favored to win the House, according to FiveThirtyEight’s poll aggregate. The Republicans look slightly less likely to win the Senate.
“We need to have hearings, we need to drag the attorney general before the Senate Judiciary Committee. We need to drag the attorney general before the Senate Judiciary Committee. We need to drag the FBI, we need to get to the bottom of this, we need to use subpoena power, we need to clean house at the FBI, and we need to get rid of corrupt partisans at the senior levels,” Cruz continued.
Cruz reserved his most pointed criticism for Garland, the head of Biden’s Justice Department.
“The House of Representatives needs to impeach Merrick Garland and they need to impeach Alejandro Mayorkas the secretary of Homeland Security, and we need to have trials in the United States Senate on their abuse of power and the incredible damage it’s doing to the rule of law and to Americans across this country,” Cruz said. “This Department of Justice, this FBI has now been thoroughly politicized and weaponized. Merrick Garland has done more damage to the credibility of the Justice Department and the FBI than any attorney general in history.”
In the past, Cruz clashed with Garland during Senate hearings.
“This is disgusting, politicizing the Department of Justice,” Cruz concluded. “I don’t want to see a Republican Department of Justice. I don’t want to see a Democrat Department of Justice. I want to see a Department of Justice and an FBI that enforces the law that follows the law fairly and is blind to political party, that is not a partisan weapon. That’s what it’s been throughout most of its history, and under Joe Biden, he treats it like the storm troopers for the Democratic National Committee.”
For an idea of Cruz’s plans, take a look at this 202 exchange between Cruz and Garland —
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