No, Ted, You Weren’t in ‘Law Enforcement’

Okay, if I heard right, Ted Cruz just said he had “spent much of his life in law enforcement.” We’re trying to verify all the points in Cruz’s resume. But this is silly. It’s not clear that Ted Cruz has ever served in any law enforcement capacity at all. Cruz is basically treating being a lawyer as “being in law enforcement.” But, no. First Cruz was a law clerk. Then he was in private practice. Then for less than a year he served in the Bush DOJ – but it’s not clear to me that it was in anything that could be called a law enforcement capacity. Next he was a lawyer at the FTC. Then he was Solicitor General of Texas. Cruz was a high flying lawyer for twenty years. As near as I can tell he’s never been in law enforcement. No, being a Supreme Court clerk is not being in law enforcement.