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onehandle

(51,122 posts)
Mon Jun 29, 2015, 04:18 PM Jun 2015

Cruz watched porn with Supreme Court justices

Source: The Hill

Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas), a 2016 contender, reveals in his new book out Tuesday that he once watched pornography with Supreme Court justices while serving as a law clerk. Cruz was clerking for then-Chief Justice William Rehnquist and recalls standing behind Rehnquist and Justice Sandra Day O'Connor in his book, A Time for Truth.

"We were in front of a large computer screen gazing at explicit, hard-core pornography," Cruz wrote, according to The Washington Post. At the time, the court was considering a case regarding the regulation of online pornography. Court librarians reportedly set up a tutorial for the justices and clerks to show how adult content can be easily found online. The librarian punched in "cantaloupe" as an example, misspelled.

"A slew of hard-core, explicit images showed up onscreen," Cruz wrote, according to the Post. "As we watched these graphic pictures fill our screens, wide-eyed, no one said a word. Except for Justice O'Connor, who lowered her head, squinted slightly, and muttered, 'Oh, my.'"

Read more: http://thehill.com/blogs/ballot-box/246439-cruz-watched-porn-with-supreme-court-justices

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Cruz watched porn with Supreme Court justices (Original Post) onehandle Jun 2015 OP
We know Cruz and the like are sexually repressed to extremes that are unbelievable, so randys1 Jun 2015 #1
About as fantastical as this account, like didn't happen. Religinuts believe their make-believe Dont call me Shirley Jun 2015 #2
Why would you assume it didn't happen? brooklynite Jun 2015 #8
Because I have a difficult time taking anything a pathological liar says seriously. Dont call me Shirley Jun 2015 #9
I don't really care... Kalidurga Jun 2015 #3
Oh my, the devil has won! HAHAHA! Helen Borg Jun 2015 #4
I'm shocked that idiot is releasing a book... giftedgirl77 Jun 2015 #5
you will notice onethatcares Jun 2015 #7
Considering who his followers are I'm going to assume giftedgirl77 Jun 2015 #18
Justice Thomas Chasstev365 Jun 2015 #6
Cruz and his family are setting up America and the US Constitution to be done away with. DhhD Jun 2015 #10
Another intentionally sensationalistic and misleading headline from The Hill PSPS Jun 2015 #11
As Ogden Nash wrote many years ago of another Republican senator... LeftishBrit Jun 2015 #12
I bet slappy was there Doctor_J Jun 2015 #13
I reallly wish I had not read this before my dinner irisblue Jun 2015 #14
I'm guessing that the answer is "a lot." onenote Jun 2015 #19
VCR tapes were still around and sorta popular. irisblue Jun 2015 #20
Rehnquist?? Not surprised. Hepburn Jun 2015 #15
They must have been watching FOX "news". mahannah Jun 2015 #16
"A Time for Truth"? red dog 1 Jun 2015 #17
Suddenly, they slipped in a tape and ''toto we're not in Kansas anymore" LOL ...Oh brother. YOHABLO Jun 2015 #21
Point? SoapBox Jun 2015 #22
Research douggg Jun 2015 #23

randys1

(16,286 posts)
1. We know Cruz and the like are sexually repressed to extremes that are unbelievable, so
Mon Jun 29, 2015, 04:19 PM
Jun 2015

you wonder just how deeply disturbed his sex life is.

Kalidurga

(14,177 posts)
3. I don't really care...
Mon Jun 29, 2015, 04:33 PM
Jun 2015

true or not it's kind of funny. I can't think of too many things anyone could post about Cruz that would make me think less of him. Including video of him kicking a puppy. Yes, I think he is as low as a puppy kicker, possibly lower he would gladly starve the children of low wage workers.

 

giftedgirl77

(4,713 posts)
18. Considering who his followers are I'm going to assume
Mon Jun 29, 2015, 06:32 PM
Jun 2015

that it must be a picture book, with the occasional pop up to keep them excited.

Chasstev365

(5,191 posts)
6. Justice Thomas
Mon Jun 29, 2015, 04:53 PM
Jun 2015

I thought old Clarence was the porn expert on the court : ) The story is BS and I don't believe it for a second!

DhhD

(4,695 posts)
10. Cruz and his family are setting up America and the US Constitution to be done away with.
Mon Jun 29, 2015, 05:38 PM
Jun 2015

King and Queen Cruz want to rule over Canada and the United States with a new Rain Movement Theology Constitution and a demised boundary.

PSPS

(13,647 posts)
11. Another intentionally sensationalistic and misleading headline from The Hill
Mon Jun 29, 2015, 05:46 PM
Jun 2015

This happened during the course of investigating the merits of a case before the court, not for any gratification. Geesh. This is nothing more than an ad for Cruz's book and shouldn't even be in LBN. But, well, you know. I'm sure The Hill will get lots of clicks for it, which is the only reason they do this.

LeftishBrit

(41,219 posts)
12. As Ogden Nash wrote many years ago of another Republican senator...
Mon Jun 29, 2015, 05:51 PM
Jun 2015

Senator Smoot is an institute
Not to be bribed with pelf.
He guards our homes from erotic tomes
By reading them all himself.

irisblue

(33,067 posts)
14. I reallly wish I had not read this before my dinner
Mon Jun 29, 2015, 06:07 PM
Jun 2015

and how much computer based porn was available when he clerked in 1996/97?

irisblue

(33,067 posts)
20. VCR tapes were still around and sorta popular.
Mon Jun 29, 2015, 06:49 PM
Jun 2015

chamomile tea still hasn't settled my stomach from that image

Hepburn

(21,054 posts)
15. Rehnquist?? Not surprised.
Mon Jun 29, 2015, 06:09 PM
Jun 2015

Rehnquist = Full blown dope addict and major POS...if he had appeared in kiddie porn I would not be surprised.

Sandra Day O'C? How in the hell could anyone put on a fuck film in front of that lady? Geeeeeeeez!!!!!

red dog 1

(27,942 posts)
17. "A Time for Truth"?
Mon Jun 29, 2015, 06:27 PM
Jun 2015

What a joke!

Cruz is probably the biggest liar in the Senate.

He wouldn't know the truth if it hit him in his ugly Alfred E. Newmanesque face.


K&R, thanks for posting.

SoapBox

(18,791 posts)
22. Point?
Mon Jun 29, 2015, 08:10 PM
Jun 2015

How many men have never watched "porn"?

But there is something weird about this...like it was malware or an implant of some kind.

Whatever.

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