'I Voted Hell No On Both': Ted Cruz Attacks Key Biden Nominee

is set to open at 10 9 30. and pardon me that's what i got at that information last night it was 9 30. 9 30 but you have to go to the floor five after so um the question is whether we want to take the vote and then recognize it to individual senators to speak as long as they wish is there objection to that if not as i noted my opening remarks the minorities requested a roll call vote on rachel rollins nomination the u.s attorney mr chairman i actually would like to speak before the vote because i i would like what i'm saying to be considered when people are casting their votes of course the senator has a right i hope he will recognize that there are colleagues of his who need to go to the floor please proceed thank you mr chairman uh i think clarity is a good thing in politics and life i think transparency is a good thing in politics and life all of us when we go back to our states our constituents are interested in what we support and what we stand for the question of the police do we support the police or oppose the police that has become an important political question back home the debate over abolishing the police is sadly and astonishingly to me a real debate in today's democratic party because there are multiple elected democrats who vocally embrace abolishing the police it's not just at the local level it's not just the mayor of new york city it's not just the mayor of minneapolis it's not just the mayor of portland that advocate abolishing the police sadly it is now senior officials of the u.s department of justice the number two official at the department of justice and the head of the civil rights division at the department of justice both are among the leading advocates in the country for abolishing the police both in writing repeatedly and emphatically advocated for abolishing the police last year one year ago in writing they advocated abolishing the police now every democratic member of this committee maintains oh no no no i don't support abolishing the police at the same time every single democrat in the united states senate voted to confirm not one but two senior officials at the u.s department of justice who are among the leading advocates of abolishing the police and now we get a third time well listen our votes have consequences by the way i voted hell no on both of them because i think abolishing the police is insanity and i'm emphatically against it that's an easy vote and i'm very comfortable telling the people of texas why i cast that vote now we have the nomination of ms rollins i'll confess a week ago i had no idea who rachel rollins was i'd never heard of her never encountered her then i looked at her record and it takes your breath away we are dealing with an individual nominated to be a u.s attorney in massachusetts who has been vocal and aggressive against prosecuting crime look part of abolishing police is getting rid of the men and women in blue that keep us safe another part of abolishing police is telling prosecutors you no longer prosecute crimes we're not in the crime business anymore in other words we the government almost always and in fact i'll take out the the almost always democrats say given a choice between a violent criminal and an innocent citizen we the democrats choose the violent criminal you may say surely that is hyperbole no one would be crazy someone who meets that description to be the u.s attorney well let's look at her record first of all ms rollins in in february she was very candid that she came into the job of d.a as a crusader here's what she said quote if you want to change the criminal legal system become a prosecutor why she explains why because you have quote the power to determine charges and what crimes to decline to prosecute so that's what miss rollins tells you matters about a prosecutor the power to say i won't prosecute these crimes well surely she exercised it with reason and restraint that's that's what our democratic colleagues on this committee are suggesting well let's look in writing and i will say this this document it is entitled appendix c s-c-d-a-o declination and diversion policy boy what an incredibly boring title designed to mask a horrific policy i would encourage anyone look if you're watching this at home and let's assume you have political leanings you're a republican you're a democrat if you're republican you're inclined to believe the republicans on this if you're a democrat you're inclined to believe the democrats on this let me suggest something to you go read this document i'll tweet out this document just read it read it yourself and then ask who's telling the truth because for all the democrats saying no no no what do you mean she won't prosecute crimes let me read from the documents she prepared charges on the list of 15 should be declined or dismissed pre-arrangement so even before the preceding start without conditions so we're not going to put any conditions on it no matter what just get throw it out we don't even we don't want to see these cases and in fact the next sentence says the presumption is the charges that fall into this category should always be denied always so no wiggle room of oh just in some cases always is what she wrote even when attached to another charge so if you have a multiple criminal we just throw out these crimes basically this is the prosecutor saying i'm the legislature those pesky elected legislators that actually voted on the criminal code i don't care what they say i am erasing these crimes from the criminal code okay let's see listen there's some dumb laws you know maybe what she's erasing i'll tell you in texas it is still i believe a crime uh senator corner may be able to confirm it to carry wire cutters in your pocket unless they protrude three inches or more now that actually goes back to the days of cattle rustling if you had a prosecutor who says all right we're not going to have an aggressive wire cutter in the pocket carrying prosecution unit i'd be good with that so so maybe the categories of crimes that she says are no longer crimes in my jurisdiction maybe they're that kind of thing the stupid things well let's start what's the first one on the list trespass okay i want everyone to think about this and by the way what's interesting is this is not just in red states i want the people of delaware to think about this people of connecticut the people of hawaii the people of california or georgia do you want laws against trespass enforced in your community well according to this individual that the democrats want to make the top federal prosecutor the state of massachusetts trespass is no longer against the law someone comes into your house onto your property no biggie ain't a crime anymore all right what else isn't a crime shoplifting you know all of us have seen the videos i think exclusively in democratic cities of shoplifters brazenly breaking into stores and stealing and stealing and stealing and running out and why do they do it they do it for example in san francisco because you have a prosecutor there won't prosecute them so you know what hey i like stores where the price of everything is zero that'd be a pretty amazing thing not very good for the stores not very good for the community but this prosecutor says there is no shoplifting now if you want to steal a bunch of stuff this is your person if you're actually a small business owner if you'd like to not have it open season on people breaking into your store and stealing everything in it that might concern you what else larceny larceny is not a crime remember that she said these should always be declined to be prosecuted larceny is on the list what else is on the list disorderly conduct disturbing the police so let me ask you the amazing thing is even in blue states in minnesota i promise you there are a lot of moms that are not eager to discover that if someone is drunk and screaming and trespassing on their front lawn and urinating and defecating on their front lawn in front of their children and cursing at their kids that hey according to the democrats not a crime won't be prosecuted and by the way when that person comes back to your front lawn tomorrow and does it again it's not a crime tomorrow either remember always decline to prosecute it so disorderly conduct is apparently not a crime what else receiving stolen property so it's good news at least at least she's analytically complete the shoplifters can steal everything in the store they can take it to the fence and the fence can then take everything in the store if you believe that that theft doesn't matter that's a great idea if you believe in actually enforcing the law that's insane what else is not a crime under the lawless administration of this supposed district attorney driving with a suspended license well listen that sounds pretty mild i mean a suspended license that's a technical thing right what's the most common area typically where people lose their license for driving drunk where do you get your license suspended when you drive drunk so if driving with a suspended license is not a crime then apparently it is open season for people who've had their license suspended because they're repeat drunks because they endanger the safety of innocent people of children they get in a car and drive they get pulled over you don't have a license hey no problem keep on driving let us know when you kill someone when you're drunk next time what else is not a crime according to this radical b and e which all of us who watch law and order knows that stands for breaking and entering into into a vacant property to sleep or escape the cold okay that sounds kind of reasonable alright a vacant lot it's cold you're going there all right that that actually on the list you can understand the reasoning if it's cold you're breaking into a vacant lot i get i mean it's vacant there's not anyone there to be hurt you can understand that one and at least she has the good sense to say it's got to be vacant because that way no people no innocent people will be hurt right well what's the next one on the list b and e into a non-vacant property to sleep or escape the cold well what's a non-vacant property like i don't know your home so so apparently what she's saying is if it's cold outside it is no longer a crime for somebody to break into your home so they can trespass on your property they can break into your home they can commit larceny and apparently sleep in your living room now i want each of you to imagine look there's an element of how would you answer one of your constituents if someone is doing this and the answer from the prosecutor is we will always dismiss the case what else won't you prosecute wonton or malicious destruction of property i don't know about you but wanton and militias are typically pretty bad ain't a crime under her what else you could say well at least none of these are are violent right well breaking into a non-vacant property that that has the potential for violence you know what else is not a crime threats you can make a direct threat you can threaten innocent people you can threaten children you could commit threats not a crime what else is not a crime minor in possession of alcohol kids apparently drink like crazy guys party when you got it what else is not a crime it's not just alcohol okay you got kids with beer all right that's not the first time that's ever happened well marijuana possession possession of marijuana paraphernalia okay you've got some recreational pot there's some jurisdictions that have legalized that understand that well but it's just the users right it's the low-level guys nope what's the next one they don't prosecute possession with intent to distribute so if you're a drug dealer get yourself to massachusetts you know it used to be that you had to pay off a prosecutor to have a corrupt prosecutor on the payroll to get out of jail now you've got someone who's just openly saying drug dealers come to massachusetts because we don't prosecute people for possession with intent to distribute and by the way you might say well it's just marijuana there are a lot of places that say marijuana is not too bad well what's the next one on the list non-marijuana drug possession so could be pot could be i'd i haven't studied the details of that crime but i'm assuming non-marijuana drug possession includes heroin includes crack includes cocaine includes fentanyl pcp lsd all of those hey if you got kids a lot of us on this committee have kids i don't know i would be kind of dismayed by a prosecutor who says if there's a drug dealer in my kid's school with a backpack full of fentanyl selling it to other kids we're not going to prosecute them but apparently the democrats on this committee are not dismayed and by the way on the question of do you support cops or not the last one on this list is really incredibly revealing resisting arrest police officer goes confronts someone who's violent they're violent they engage with them they resist arrest what's the prosecutor say man it really stinks to be you i'm sorry you chose to be a cop but it's open season apparently resisting arrest is now the standard way of interacting with the police in massachusetts this is lunacy and by the way to make clear that her policy of not prosecuting anything is consistent with her advocacy of abolishing the police here's what she said at an earlier public gathering rollins also spoke about the much discussed concept of defunding the police okay let's find out where is she on defunding the police she said that defund is not the verb she would use okay that's good i'm sure every democratic talking point is going to take that portion of the statement she wouldn't use the the verb defund but rather reimagine okay reimagine maybe good maybe bad hard to tell or reallocate now anyone who knows anything about defund means take the money out of take get away their funding reallocate means take the money away get away their funding and she explained she she elaborates on this i think we're asking the police to do far too much i think we can reimagine and reallocate some funding take money away from the cops those are her views and i'll give you to have a sense of just how extreme this nominee is i want to point to art acevedo senator cornyn knows art acevedo he used to be the chief of police in austin he used to be the chief of police in houston he's now in miami art is a democrat he is a partisan democrat art is an ambitious partisan democrat he has his eyes on higher office no one has ever missed that about art art is now the president of the major cities chiefs association i've had a lot of disagreements with art acevedo here's what liberal democrat art acevedo says about rachel rollins quote people like ms rollins are quote going so far that we're putting the criminal and their interests in front of the victim's interest so i started these remarks by saying transparency matters i assume moments from now we're going to vote and we're going to have a party line vote and every democrat just going to go ahead and vote for this candidate you're not going to have listened to anything the republicans have said and then you're going to go tell your constituents what do you mean i don't support abolishing the police well transparency matters you now know her record if you believe that we should actually prosecute crimes if you believe that people shouldn't trespass on your property at home shouldn't be able to break into your home shouldn't be able to shoplift shouldn't be able to resist arrest shouldn't be able to commit threats and have someone who is ostensibly the prosecutor immunize them and allow that conduct and there's only one thing to do which is vote and let me say i find it amusing we're having an argument about whether this is a roll call vote or not i agree it should be a voice vote and we should unanimously reject this nominee that would be if we were in the land of reason that's what we would do but we're instead in partisan polarization and so every democrat will happily like pravda vote i and then pretend you didn't but facts are stubborn things and anyone who reads this document knows exactly what kind of radical this prosecutor is thank you senator cruz senator blumenthal may we take the roll call vote absolutely

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Published: Thu Sep 30 2021