Ted Cruz

If a victim decides, I don't want my story told, that's your right as well.

We're not going to force a victim

Well, and the US Supreme Court has described, they've said, other than murder, rape is the most grievous harm that could be inflicted to a person.

And I've spent a lot of my career fighting against child sexual abuse.

So when I was the Solicitor General of Texas,

I argued in front of the U.S.

Supreme Court defending Louisiana's law that provided for capital punishment, the death penalty for the most egregious child rapist.

Unfortunately, the Supreme Court 5-4 struck that down, so we did not prevail in that case.

Texas's law was also struck down when Louisiana's law was struck down.

I also defended Texas has a Texas sexually violent predator civil commitment law that gives the courts the ability to take a sexually violent predator and put them in civil commitment, take them off the streets to protect people.

And a state court of appeals had struck that law down and concluded it was unconstitutional.

And I argued the case in front of the Texas Supreme Court defending that law.

And we won unanimously.

The law was reinstated and it's now a tool that you have to go after sexual predators.

And, you know, we mentioned before, so this bill, my lead co-sponsor is Kirsten Gillibrand, Democrat from New York.

And then we have on this bill as well, we have Katie Britt, Republican from Alabama, who's a dear friend.

We have Eric Schmidt, Republican from Missouri, another very good friend.

And then we also have Amy Klobuchar, Democrat from Minnesota.

We have Peter Welch, Democrat from Vermont.

And then Jean Shaheen, a Democrat from New Hampshire.