Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Tex.) has a Wiener downside.
The conservative lawmaker appeared to confuse California state Sen. Scott Wiener (D) with disgraced former Rep. Anthony Weiner (D-NY) in an insult that shortly backfired on Wednesday.
“Wait, I assumed this man was thrown out of Congress for sending bare photos of himself?” Cruz tweeted, maybe jokingly, in response to criticism from the California lawmaker.
Wiener fired again with a blunt reminder of their time collectively at Harvard Regulation Faculty within the Nineteen Nineties:
Wiener has dished out reminders of Cruz’s law-school previous earlier than, together with in 2022 after Cruz’s aggressive line of questioning in the course of the affirmation hearings for Supreme Court docket Affiliate Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson.
“Ketanji Brown Jackson was in my legislation faculty class,” Wiener tweeted on the time. “Everybody thought she was a pleasant & sensible particular person. Ted Cruz was a 12 months forward of us in legislation faculty. Everybody thought he was a significant jackass, as he’s demonstrating but once more at present.”
The newest spat between Wiener and Cruz was additionally over judicial hearings.
Wiener known as Cruz out for “straight up Islamophobia” for his opposition to Adeel Mangi, a judicial nominee who could be the first-ever Muslim appeals courtroom choose if confirmed.
That affirmation, nonetheless, is unsure as he has been the goal of a smear marketing campaign.