Texas GOP senator didn't "graduate" from Oxford University law program, as claimed in prior campaign

[TheBlackAdder]

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Sen. John Cornyn, R-Tx., who currently finds himself in an unusually competitive race against Democratic opponent MJ Hegar, previously falsely represented himself as a graduate of Oxford University in England in the run-up to his successful election to the Texas Supreme Court, press and public records show.

In the eight months before Cornyn's 1990 election to the state's highest court, seven Texas publications, including regional standard-bearers such as the Austin-American Statesman and the Houston Chronicle, published 10 profiles claiming that Cornyn had "graduated" from "the Judicial Studies Program" at Oxford
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However, during his campaign for attorney general of Texas eight years later, Cornyn repeatedly attacked Republican rival Barry Williamson for padding his resume "just like Lena Guerrero did" — a reference to a Texas Democrat who two years prior lost a race for state office to Williamson after it was revealed that she had lied about having a college diploma.
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A 2020 freedom of information request to Oxford University reviewed by Salon returned no record of Cornyn graduating from or attending a regular or continuing studies program offered through the school. The university's Faculty of Law had no record of a Judicial Studies Program at all.

"The Degree Conferrals Office and Department of Continuing Education have been unable to find any record of a John Cornyn with a date of birth of 2 February 1952," the institution wrote. "The Faculty of Law is unable to confirm the existence of a Judicial Studies programme."

It appears that the claim stems from a two-week seminar jointly hosted by the National Judicial College at the University of Nevada, Reno and Florida State University Law School, which Cornyn attended in 1988, two years before his state Supreme Court run.

Read the full article at:
https://www.salon.com/2020/10/30/texas-gop-senator-didnt-graduate-from-oxford-university-law-program-as-claimed-in-prior-campaign/

Damn, we're doing it all wrong.

We just need to attend two-week seminars to get university degrees. Not spend 4 years and $100K.

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[DonaldsRump]

1. What a pathetic loser

I remember during the Senate conviction trial for Trump's impeachment, Cornyn and other white-haired old men huddling around and discussing things as if they were great intellectuals debating points of law.

I will take MJ Hegar over this sanctimonious person any day,

[ret5hd]

2. University of Nevada, Reno???

Maybe he WON his diploma like this:

[Submariner]

3. One of the draft dodging coward scum of the Vietnam generation

Big on voting hell yes kill em all on a WMD lie war.

[Liberal In Texas]

4. Cornyn is a liar and a fraud?

Who knew?


Go MJ! Hoping for an upset victory!