“I will say it is rich. Listening to our Democrat colleagues profess their fidelity to the rule of law. After four years of happily turning a blind eye to Joe Biden and the Biden Justice Department, ignoring federal law, refusing to enforce federal immigration law, blatantly defying the law, and ironically, the litany of false charges that the senator from Illinois just directed at Mr. Reitz is really striking,” Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) said during a Senate Judiciary Committee Hearing on Thursday.
Cruz was responding to attacks on Aaron Reitz, President Trump's nominee to lead the DOJ's Office of Legal Policy, by Sen. Dick Durbin (D-IL).
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“But their favorite talking point is that he will defy federal court orders. Now, he's been a practicing lawyer for many years. He's never defied a federal court order. But I'll tell you who has Joe Biden. And in fact, let's read what Joe Biden said in his tweet. Here's what Joe Biden said, quote, ‘the Supreme Court tried to block me from relieving student debt, but they didn't stop me. I've relieved student debt for over 5 million Americans. I'm going to keep going.’ That's the same Joe Biden they were happy to salute and listen to defy the court if it's in favor of their left-wing political agenda.”