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News and commentary about the anti-gay lobbyJuly 7th, 2015
Last week NPR Morning Edition host Steve Inskeep interviewed the one-term Junior Senator from Texas, Ted Cruz, about his book, his opinions, his book, his run for President, his book, gay marriage, and his book. During the interview, Cruz said something interesting:
Now, when Chief Justice Rehnquist passed away, I was a pallbearer at his funeral. Chief Justice Roberts was also a pallbearer at his funeral.
He repeated this story again in an interview with Katie Couric. (around the 5:00 mark)
I’ve known John Roberts for two decades. He’s a friend of mine. We were both clerks for Chief Justice William Rehnquist. Indeed with Chief Justice Rehnquist passed away, both John Roberts and I were pallbearers at Chief Justice Rehnquist’s funeral.
But there’s a problem with that claim. Contemporary accounts don’t seem to make mention of Cruz being a pallbearer. The September 7, 2005 edition of the Los Angeles Times paints a different account of the event.
The pallbearers — David G. Leitch, Frederick W. Lambert, Ronald J. Tenpas, James Duff, Kerri Martin Bartlett, Gregory G. Garre, John C. Englander and [John] Roberts — and Rehnquist’s other former clerks and staff members lining the Great Hall looked ashen.
And I don’t think I recognize him from the photograph.
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Neil
July 7th, 2015
Ted Cruz. Appalling.
I’ll just get my coat…
Lynn David
July 7th, 2015
It is possible that Cruz was named an honorary pall-bearer. That often happens in cases like this.
Lynn David
July 7th, 2015
Also his coffin was taken to repose in the Court then to the Church then to the cemetery and it could be that the pall-bearer duties were shared among his clerks and others over those times.
Lightning Baltimore
July 7th, 2015
He was the invisible one.
SharonB
July 8th, 2015
He was pall-bearing in Buenos Aries, but his helicopter was shot down by a rocket -propelled grenade, and that’s why he isn’t in those pictures.
Timothy Kincaid
July 8th, 2015
Interestingly, Cruz was taking credit for being a pallbearer back at the time of the funeral, though this doesn’t appear to be confirmed by anything or anyone.
http://articles.baltimoresun.com/2005-09-08/news/0509080060_1_chief-justice-rehnquist-clerks-william-hubbs
Mark F.
July 8th, 2015
He was a pallbearer in spirit?
Stephen White
July 11th, 2015
Maybe he’s hidden underneath the flag?
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