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Senator Ted Cruz questioned Judge Jackson on a note she wrote for the Harvard Law Review regarding the restraint of released sex offenders. In the note, Jackson argued that certain sex offender statutes, such as registration and DNA testing, should be viewed as "punitive" and therefore potentially unconstitutional. Cruz used this to frame Jackson as having a long-term "record of activism" on behalf of sexual predators.
Kimberlé Crenshaw, a co-founder of Critical Race Theory, specifically named Senator Ted Cruz as someone who understands the theory but manipulates it for political gain. Critics argue that Crenshaw's direct targeting of Republican politicians reveals her role as a political operative rather than a neutral academic. Both Crenshaw and Cruz share a background in Harvard Law, where the theory was originally developed.
