Summary: May a president, with a memo on an international agreement, override the verdict of a court for rape or murder? Ted Cruz serves as the Solicitor General of Texas. Appointed by Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott in January 2003, he is the chief appellate lawyer for the State of Texas. Mr. Cruz is the first Hispanic Solicitor General in Texas and, when appointed, was the youngest Solicitor General in the United States. He has authored over seventy U.S. Supreme Court briefs and presented twenty-eight oral arguments, including seven in the U.S. Supreme Court.
