He is testifying before the committee on January 6th.
He said that if the election was thrown out, there would be a revolution.
Cruz said that he was like a father to him.
Ted Cruz, a Republican from Texas, once named a retired judge as an ideal Supreme Court nominee.
It shows how far apart the conservative legal world is from Donald Trump's efforts to overturn the election results.
The committee was told on Thursday that legal theories pushed by a Trump lawyer to overturn the 2020 election results would plunge America into darkness.
"If the Vice President of the United States had obeyed the President of the United States, America would have been plunged into what would have been a revolution within a paralyzing constitutional crisis," he wrote. One of America's two political parties can't agree on whether that day was good or bad.
Cruz served as a law clerk for Luttig on the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals and has described him as a mentor. According to the New York Times, Cruz has said that he is a father to him.
Cruz said during a debate against Trump that he would have nominated Luttig to the Supreme Court.
Cruz told Mediaite that he wouldn't have nominated John Roberts. I wouldn't have put him up for nomination. I would have nominated my former boss.
During his time as a judge on the Fourth Circuit in Virginia, he was once considered for appointment to the Supreme Court. Justice Samuel Alito was nominated for the 2005 position.
He criticized Cruz for trying to do Trump's bidding by voting to reject the electoral college results in Pennsylvania and Arizona.
"After the 2020 election, Republican senators like Ted Cruz of Texas and Josh Hawley of Missouri tried to take advantage of the ambiguities in the law to do Mr. Trump's bidding, mounting a case for overturn the results in some Biden-won states on little more than a wish," he
He wrote that "Mr. Trump is once again counting on a sympathetic and malleable Congress and willing states to use the Electoral Count Act to his advantage"
The associate justice-designate would be the "most extreme and the furthest left justice" ever appointed to the high court, according to Cruz.
After former Attorney General Bill Barr described Trump's claims of a stolen election as "bullshit," Cruz stood firm.
I want to know if I have any regrets over fighting to enhance voter integrity and protect our democracy. He told the Huffington Post that he didn't have regrets over fighting for democracy.
Cruz's office didn't reply immediately.
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