John Cornyn
John Cornyn | |
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Senate Narcotics Caucus | |
In office January 3, 2019 – January 20, 2021 | |
Preceded by | Chuck Grassley |
Succeeded by | Sheldon Whitehouse |
Senate Majority Whip | |
In office January 3, 2015 – January 3, 2019 | |
Leader | Mitch McConnell |
Preceded by | Dick Durbin |
Succeeded by | John Thune |
Senate Minority Whip | |
In office January 3, 2013 – January 3, 2015 | |
Leader | Mitch McConnell |
Preceded by | Jon Kyl |
Succeeded by | Dick Durbin |
Chair of the National Republican Senatorial Committee | |
In office January 3, 2009 – January 3, 2013 | |
Preceded by | John Ensign |
Succeeded by | Jerry Moran |
49th Attorney General of Texas | |
In office January 13, 1999 – December 1, 2002 | |
Governor | George W. Bush Rick Perry |
Preceded by | Dan Morales |
Succeeded by | Greg Abbott |
Justice of the Texas Supreme Court | |
In office January 2, 1991 – October 18, 1997 | |
Preceded by | Franklin Spears |
Succeeded by | Deborah Hankinson |
Judge of the Texas 37th Judicial District Court | |
In office January 1, 1985 – January 1, 1991 | |
Preceded by | Richard Woods |
Succeeded by | Ann-Marie Aaron |
Personal details | |
Born | John Cornyn III February 2, 1952 Houston, Texas, U.S. |
Political party | Republican |
Spouse |
Sandy Hansen (m. 1979) |
Children | 2 |
Education | Trinity University (BA) St. Mary's University, Texas (JD) University of Virginia (LLM) |
Website | Senate website |
John Cornyn III (
Born in
In 1998, Cornyn was elected
Early life, education, and legal career
Cornyn was born in
In 1988, Cornyn attended a two-week seminar at Oxford University, jointly hosted by the National Judicial College at the University of Nevada, Reno and Florida State University’s College of Law.[12] The seminar, held on the Oxford campus, was not academically affiliated with the university.[12]
Cornyn served as a district judge in
Texas attorney general
1998 election
In 1998, Cornyn ran for
Tenure
In September 2000, Cornyn created the Texas Internet Bureau to investigate illegal internet practices.[16] The Internet Bureau was funded through an $800,000 grant from Governor Bush’s office, and its mission was to "help fight cybercrime in Texas, including consumer fraud, hacker break-ins, and online child exploitation".[17] Cornyn investigated fraudulent Medicare and Medicaid claims.[18]
Cornyn was criticized by civil rights groups for failing to investigate in a timely manner the false drug convictions of numerous African Americans in Tulia, Texas. On September 6, 2002, The Austin Chronicle reported that Cornyn had announced that his office would investigate the 1999 drug bust, where the testimony of one narcotics agent led to the arrests of 46 people, 43 of whom were Black.[19]
In 2005, Cornyn was mentioned as a possible replacement for Supreme Court Justices Sandra Day O'Connor and William Rehnquist.[20]
United States Senate
Elections
2002
In the 2002 Republican primary, Cornyn faced five opponents. Cornyn defeated his closest Republican challenger, the self-financed, Dallas-based international physician Bruce Rusty Lang, by a ten-to-one margin. In the general election, Cornyn defeated Democratic nominee Ron Kirk in a campaign that cost each candidate over $9 million.[21]
2008
2014
Cornyn was reelected in 2014, and according to the
2020
Cornyn was reelected to a fourth term in 2020 in the closest of his Senate campaigns. He won the primary with 76% of the vote, and then defeated Democrat
Tenure
In 2004, Cornyn co-founded and became the co-chairman of the U.S. Senate India Caucus.[28] In December 2006, he was selected by his colleagues to join the five-person Republican Senate leadership team as Vice Chairman of the Senate Republican Conference.[29]
In 2005, Cornyn gained notice by connecting the Supreme Court's reluctance to hear arguments for sustaining
On May 18, 2007, Cornyn was involved in a verbal altercation with Senator John McCain.[33] During a meeting on immigration, McCain and Cornyn had a shouting match when Cornyn started questioning the number of judicial appeals that illegal immigrants could receive. McCain responded by yelling profanity and insults at Cornyn, and followed up with the assertion, "I know more about this than anyone else in the room." Previously, Cornyn told McCain: "Wait a second here. I've been sitting in here for all of these negotiations, and you just parachute in here on the last day. You're out of line."[34]
As chairman of the
Cornyn voted to confirm
On the day of Obama's inauguration, it was reported that Cornyn would prevent Hillary Clinton from being confirmed as secretary of state by unanimous floor vote that day. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid's spokesman reported to the Associated Press that a roll call vote for the Clinton confirmation would be held instead on the following day, January 21, 2009, and that it was expected Clinton would "receive overwhelming bipartisan support".[41] The vote was 94–2 in her favor, with only Senators Jim DeMint and David Vitter voting in opposition.[42]
On March 18, 2020, Cornyn blamed the
Senate Majority Whip
On November 14, 2012, Cornyn was elected Senate Minority Whip by his peers.[46]
Cornyn was named Senate Majority Whip after the 2014 election, in which Republicans gained a Senate majority.[26][47]
After the death of Associate Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia in February 2016, Cornyn said that anyone Obama nominated to replace him would have a difficult confirmation process and feel like a piñata.[48] He also said that no serious candidate would accept a nomination knowing that they would not be confirmed. When Obama nominated Merrick Garland to replace Scalia, Cornyn said that even if the president has the constitutional authority to nominate someone, the Senate has full authority on how to proceed. Cornyn also said that the voice of the people should play a role, and that the "only way to empower the American people" was having the vacancy be filled by the winner of the upcoming presidential election, so no hearings on Garland should be held.[49][50] The Senate did not vote on Garland's nomination, which expired after the November election of President Donald Trump. Trump nominated Neil Gorsuch to the seat, and Gorsuch was confirmed. In September 2020, Cornyn supported a vote on Trump's nominee to fill the Supreme Court vacancy caused by the death of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg. In March 2016, he took the position that the Senate should not consider Obama's Supreme Court nominee.[50]
On June 8, 2017, during a committee hearing whose announced topic was the Russian interference in the 2016 election and Comey's dismissal as FBI director, Cornyn opted instead to spend his time questioning James Comey on Hillary Clinton's email controversy.[51]
In September 2018, during the Supreme Court nomination hearings for Brett Kavanaugh, Cornyn accused the Democrats on the Judiciary Committee of devolving into mob rule by breaking the rules of decorum when asking for postponement or adjournment of the hearing to obtain or review documents from Kavanaugh's time working for the George W. Bush administration. Cornyn said that it was hard to believe the Democrats' claim that they could not properly assess Kavanaugh without the documents because it seemed that their minds were already made up.[52]
Committee assignments[53]
- United States Senate Select Committee on Intelligence
- Committee on Finance
- Committee on the Judiciary
- Subcommittee on the Constitution
- Subcommittee on Criminal Justice and Counterterrorism
- Subcommittee on Immigration, Refugees and Border Security(ranking member)
- Subcommittee on Intellectual Property
- Subcommittee on Privacy, Technology and the Law
- Caucus on International Narcotics Control[54]
Political positions
Political scientists John M. Sides and Daniel J. Hopkins characterized Cornyn as "very conservative" in 2015.[55] In 2013, National Journal ranked Cornyn the 14th-most conservative Senator.[56] The Dallas Morning News considered him a reliable ally of President George W. Bush on most issues.[57]
Abortion
Cornyn opposes abortion.[58]
In 2007, Cornyn voted against expanding federal funding for
In 2019, when asked about an Alabama law that prohibited abortions (even in the case of rape or incest), Cornyn said it was an "Alabama state issue".[63]
Civil rights and law enforcement
In the 2004 debate surrounding the Federal Marriage Amendment, Cornyn released an advance copy of a speech he was to give at The Heritage Foundation. In the speech, he wrote, "It does not affect your daily life very much if your neighbor marries a box turtle. But that does not mean it is right ... Now you must raise your children up in a world where that union of man and box turtle is on the same legal footing as man and wife." According to his office, he removed the reference to the box turtle in the actual speech,[64] but The Washington Post ran the quote, as did The Daily Show.[65][66]
Cornyn sponsored a bill to allow law enforcement to force anyone arrested or detained by federal authorities to provide samples of their
In a February 24, 2019 tweet, Cornyn mocked dictatorship, centralized power and democratic socialism by quoting Italian fascist leader Benito Mussolini as saying "We were the first to assert that the more complicated the forms assumed by civilization, the more restricted the freedom of the individual must become."[68]
On June 25, 2022, after the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade and Planned Parenthood v. Casey, Cornyn tweeted, "Now do Plessy vs Ferguson/Brown vs Board of Education" in response to former President Barack Obama condemning the reversal of Roe in part because of its standing as "50 years of precedent". Representative Joaquin Castro, who interpreted the tweet as advocating the return of segregation in schools, condemned the tweet as racist. Cornyn continued in another tweet, "Thank goodness some SCOTUS precedents are overruled"; Brown had overturned more than 50 years of precedent regarding the doctrine of "separate but equal" as defined by Plessy.[69]
President Donald Trump
Cornyn has been described as an "immutable Trump ally".
During Trump's presidency, Cornyn and fellow Texas Senator Ted Cruz contributed to the appointment of multiple conservative judges to federal courts with jurisdiction over Texas.[74][75][76][77]
Cornyn repeatedly defended Trump's decision to siphon resources from the Pentagon in order to build a wall on the Mexico border. In March and September 2019, he voted to ratify the maneuver, opposing congressional attempts to block Trump's action. But in late October 2020, as Cornyn was trying to distance himself from Trump, he claimed that he had never supported Trump's maneuver and that he opposed it.[78]
Cornyn warned Trump about anticipated negative effects of restructuring tariffs on Mexican exports, saying, "We're holding a gun to our own heads by doing this."
In June 2020, amid reports that Russia had paid the Taliban bounties to kill American soldiers and that Trump had been briefed on the subject months earlier,[82] Cornyn defended an assertion by Trump that he had never been briefed on the subject. Cornyn said, "I think the president can't single-handedly remember everything, I'm sure, that he's briefed on."[83]
In response to reports that Trump would not be attending Joe Biden's inauguration, Cornyn told Cruz and other lawmakers "see you there", implying that he planned to attend,[84] which he did.[85]
On May 28, 2021, Cornyn voted against creating an independent commission to investigate the January 6 United States Capitol attack.[86]
Foreign policy and national security
In December 2010, Cornyn was one of 26 senators to vote against the ratification of New Start,[87] a nuclear arms reduction treaty between the United States and Russia that obliges both countries to have no more than 1,550 strategic warheads and 700 launchers deployed during the next seven years, and provides a continuation of on-site inspections that halted when START I expired the previous year. It was the first arms treaty with Russia in eight years.[88]
In 2013, Cornyn said that, despite the sequester, the Pentagon would actually see its budget increase.[89]
In April 2018, Cornyn was one of eight Republican senators to sign a letter to Secretary of the Treasury
Cornyn supported U.S. involvement in the
As Majority Whip, Cornyn filed a resolution welcoming Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who was to address a joint meeting of Congress in March 2015, a resolution co-sponsored only by Republicans. Vice President Biden and numerous Senate and House Democrats said they would not attend the address.[93] Cornyn supported the Senate resolution expressing objection to UN Security Council Resolution 2334, which called Israeli settlement building in the occupied Palestinian territories a flagrant violation of international law.[94]
Cornyn has been a vocal critic of the
Upon the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan, Cornyn tweeted that the U.S. still has 30,000 troops in
Economy
Cornyn voted to permanently repeal the
In 2008, Cornyn voted for the Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP), also known as the Wall Street bailout,[102] and later voted to end the program.[103]
Environment
Cornyn voted against a measure recognizing that climate change is manmade.[104] He was one of 22 senators to sign a letter to Trump urging him to withdraw the United States from the Paris Agreement.[105] In May 2019, Cornyn said it was important that the United States take measures to combat climate change, but condemned the Green New Deal as proposed by Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.[106] In April 2020, he stated that climate scientists' models of the effects of climate change do not use the "scientific method".[107]
In 2005, Cornyn voted against including oil and gas smokestacks in
Health care
Cornyn opposes the
Guns
In January 2014, Cornyn introduced the "Constitutional Concealed Carry Reciprocity Act". The bill would provide interstate reciprocity for persons with concealed weapons permits. Cornyn described the bill: "It's like a driver's license. It doesn't trump state laws. Say you have a carry permit in Texas; then you use it in another state that has a concealed-carry law."
In 2017, Cornyn helped Democrats pass legislation designed to aid federal agencies in alerting, reporting and recording gun purchases by creating a universal cross-agency database.[121]
In 2022, in the wake of the
LGBT rights
While serving on the
After Lawrence v. Texas, the U.S. Supreme Court decision finding anti-sodomy unconstitutional, Cornyn condemned the "startling display of judicial activism that so threatens our fundamental institutions and our values".[127] He said he worried that the Supreme Court would next overturn the Defense of Marriage Act, which prohibited recognition of same-sex marriage at the federal level,[128] and subsequently played a leading role in trying to introduce a constitutional amendment to prohibit same-sex marriage.[129][130][131][132][133] Cornyn argued that recognition of same-sex marriage harmed those who were in heterosexual marriages.[134] He claimed that children raised by gay couples are "at higher risk of a host of social ills", such as crime, drug use and dropping out of school,[135][136] arguing that same-sex would put "more and more children at risk through a radical social experiment".[135] Cornyn opposed adoption of children by gay couples.[127]
In 2012, when President Obama announced his support for same-sex marriage, Cornyn criticized Obama and accused him of trying to "divide the country".[137]
In 2021, when President Joe Biden reversed Trump's ban on transgender troops serving in the military, Cornyn accused Biden of dividing the country.[138][139]
In 2022, at the Supreme Court confirmation hearings of Ketanji Brown Jackson, Cornyn expressed his position that state governments ought to have the power to ban same-sex marriage.[140] The Supreme Court held in Obergefell v. Hodges that the 14th amendment barred states from doing so.
Victims' rights
Cornyn opposes profiting from memorabilia tied to convicted murderers, and has made several unsuccessful attempts to pass laws against it.[141][142][143]
Election law
In 2021, Cornyn helped Senate Republicans filibuster national election reform legislation. Cornyn described the bill, which exclusively received support from members of the Democratic Party, as a "politically-motivated federal takeover of our elections."[144]
Removal of Confederate statues
Cornyn opposes the removal of statues relating to the Confederate States of America. He has said, "I don't think we can go back and erase our history by removing statues."[145]
Electoral history
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |
---|---|---|---|---|
Republican | John Cornyn (incumbent) | 1,470,669 | 76.04% | |
Republican | Dwayne Stovall | 231,104 | 11.95% | |
Republican | Mark Yancey | 124,864 | 6.46% | |
Republican | John Anthony Castro | 86,916 | 4.49% | |
Republican | Virgil Bierschwale | 20,494 | 1.06% | |
Total votes | 1,934,047 | 100.0% |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |
---|---|---|---|---|
Republican | John Cornyn (incumbent) | 5,962,983 | 53.51% | |
Democratic | MJ Hegar
|
4,888,764 | 43.87% | |
Libertarian | Kerry McKennon | 209,722 | 1.88% | |
People Over Politics Party | Cedric Jefferson | |||
Human Rights Party | James Brumley | |||
Independent
|
Arjun Srinivasan | |||
Independent
|
Tim Smith | |||
Independent
|
Ricardo Turullols-Bonilla | 678 | 0.01% | |
Independent
|
Krisjiannis Vittato | |||
Total votes | 100.0% |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |
---|---|---|---|---|
Republican | John Cornyn (incumbent) | 781,259 | 59.43% | |
Republican | Steve Stockman | 251,577 | 19.13% | |
Republican | Dwayne Stovall | 140,794 | 10.71% | |
Republican | Linda Vega | 50,057 | 3.80% | |
Republican | Ken Cope | 34,409 | 2.61% | |
Republican | Chris Mapp | 23,535 | 1.79% | |
Republican | Reid Reasor | 20,600 | 1.56% | |
Republican | Curt Cleaver | 12,325 | 0.94% | |
Total votes | 1,314,556 | 100.00% |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |
---|---|---|---|---|
Republican | John Cornyn (incumbent) | 2,843,995 | 61.60% | |
Democratic | David Alameel | 1,584,772 | 34.32% | |
Libertarian | Rebecca Paddock | 132,829 | 2.87% | |
Green
|
Emily Marie Sanchez | 54,075 | 1.17% | |
Independent
|
Mohammed Tahiro | 1,158 | 0.02% | |
Total votes | 4,616,829 | 100% | ||
Republican hold |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |
---|---|---|---|---|
Republican | John Cornyn (incumbent) | 997,216 | 81.48% | |
Republican | Larry Kilgore | 226,649 | 18.52% | |
Total votes | 1,223,865 | 100% |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |
---|---|---|---|---|
Republican | John Cornyn (incumbent) | 4,337,469 | 54.8% | |
Democratic | Rick Noriega | 3,389,365 | 42.8% | |
Libertarian | Yvonne Adams Schick | 185,241 | 2.3% | |
Total votes | 7,912,075 | 100% | ||
Republican hold |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |
---|---|---|---|---|
Republican | John Cornyn | 478,825 | 77% | |
Republican | Bruce Rusty Lang | 46,907 | 8% | |
Republican | Douglas Deffenbaugh | 43,611 | 7% | |
Republican | Dudley Mooney | 32,202 | 5% | |
Republican | Lawrence Cranberg | 17,757 | 3% | |
Total votes | 619,302 | 100% |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |
---|---|---|---|---|
Republican | John Cornyn | 2,480,991 | 55% | |
Democratic | Ron Kirk | 1,946,681 | 43% | |
Libertarian | Scott Jameson | 35,538 | 1% | |
Green
|
Roy Williams | 25,051 | <1% | |
Total votes | 4,488,261 | 100% | ||
Republican hold |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |
---|---|---|---|---|
Republican | Barry Williamson | 208,345 | 38% | |
Republican | John Cornyn | 176,269 | 32% | |
Republican | Tom Pauken | 162,180 | 30% | |
Total votes | 546,794 | 100% |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |
---|---|---|---|---|
Republican | John Cornyn | 135,130 | 58% | |
Republican | Barry Williamson | 98,218 | 42% | |
Total votes | 233,348 | 100% |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |
---|---|---|---|---|
Republican | John Cornyn | 2,002,794 | 54% | |
Democratic | Jim Mattox | 1,632,045 | 44% | |
Libertarian | Mike Angwin | 57,604 | 2% | |
Total votes | 3,691,443 | 100% | ||
Republican hold |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |
---|---|---|---|---|
Republican | John Cornyn (incumbent) | 2,686,518 | 52% | |
Democratic | Patrice Barron | 2,351,750 | 46% | |
Libertarian | Thomas Stults | 129,203 | 2% | |
Total votes | 5,167,471 | 100% | ||
Republican hold |
Personal life
Cornyn and his wife, Sandy Hansen, have two daughters.[152] Cornyn receives pensions from three separate state and local governments in addition to his Senate salary.[153]
As of 2018, according to OpenSecrets.org, Cornyn's net worth was more than $1.8 million.[154]
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External links
- Senator John Cornyn official U.S. Senate website
- John Cornyn for Senate
- John Cornyn at Curlie
- Biography at the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress
- Financial information (federal office) at the Federal Election Commission
- Legislation sponsored at the Library of Congress
- Profile at Vote Smart
- Appearances on C-SPAN
- Collected news and commentary at The Texas Tribune
- "Office of the Secretary of State". Archived from the original on January 9, 2014. Retrieved September 19, 2007.