John Cornyn

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{{Infobox officeholder
|name=John Cornyn, III
|image=Sen_Cornyn_-_Official_Portrait_FeaturedPhoto.jpg‎
|party=[[Republican Party|Republican]]
|spouse=Sandy Cornyn
|children=Two children
|occupation=[[Attorney]]
|religion=[[Church of Christ]]
|birth_date=February 2, 1952
|birth_place=[[Houston, Texas]], USA
|office=Senior [[United States Senator]] from [[Texas]]
|term_start=December 2, 2002
|preceded=[[Phil Gramm]]
|office2=Texas State [[Attorney general|Attorney General]]
|term_start2=January 1999
|term_end2=December 2, 2002
|preceded2=Daniel C. "Dan" Morales
|succeeded2=[[Greg Abbott]]
|office3=Associate Justice of the Texas Supreme Court
|term_start3=January 2, 1991
|term_end3=October 18, 1997
|preceded3=Franklin Spears
|succeeded3=Deborah Hankinson
|office4=Judge of the Texas 37th Judicial District Court
|term_start4=January 1, 1985
|term_end4=January 1, 1991
|preceded4=Richard Woods
|succeeded4=Ann-Marie Aaron
|alma_mater=Trinity University 
St. Mary's University Law School 
[[University of Virginia]] Law School
}}

'''John Cornyn, III''' (born February 2, 1952, in [[Houston, Texas]]) is the [[Moderate Republican]] senior [[United States Senator]] from [[Texas]]. He is considered a leader in the [[RINO]] wing of his party in contrast to his more [[conservative]] colleague, [[Ted Cruz]]. Despite being a globalist [[RINO Backer]], he was not a [[Never Trumper]], with [[FiveThirtyEight]] claiming that he was in line with the president over 90% of the time.<ref>[https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/congress-trump-score/john-cornyn/ Tracking Congress In The Age Of Trump]. ''FiveThirtyEight''</ref>

==Early life==
John Cornyn III was born in 1952 to John Cornyn II and Atholene Dale Cornyn. His father was an air force officer, and he attended a high school in Japan at a U.S. base after his family moved there.<ref>[https://www.britannica.com/biography/John-Cornyn John Cornyn]</ref>

Cornyn is a graduate of Trinity University and St. Mary's School of Law (both in [[San Antonio]] in Bexar County) and earned a Masters of Law from the [[University of Virginia]] Law School in Charlottesville. He was a state district court judge in Bexar County from 1985 to 1991.

==Political career==
In 1990, Cornyn was elected to the Texas Supreme Court. In 1998, he was elected state attorney general. After Republican Senator Phil Gramm announced his retirement Cornyn entered the race to succeed him, and defeated the Democratic nominee, [[Mayor]] Ron Kirk of [[Dallas]], a liberal [[African-American]]. He was overwhelmingly re-elected in 2008 and in 2014, defeated conservatives [[Steve Stockman]] and [[Dwayne Stovall]] in the Republican senatorial primary for his third six-year term. Cornyn serves on the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition and Forestry, Budget Committee, Finance Committee, and Judiciary Committee.

In 2017, Cornyn was named to the No. 2 position in the U.S. Senate, called the "Majority Whip." His Senate seat was once held by [[Lyndon B. Johnson]], Johnson's permanent successor, [[John Tower]], the first Republican senator from Texas since [[Reconstruction]], and [[Phil Gramm]], Cornyn's predecessor from 1985 to 2002.

===RINO leanings===
Although somewhat conservative in his first term,<ref>In 2006, ''The National Journal'' ranked Cornyn as the fourth most conservative Senator. [http://nationaljournal.com/voteratings/sen/lib_cons.htm?o1=con_composite&o2=desc]</ref> Cornyn today is believed to be largely controlled by Republican Party moderates and liberals. However, his voting record indicates that he and his colleague from [[Texas]], [[Ted Cruz]] (who, unlike Cornyn, is not considered a [[RINO]]), tend to vote the same way.

====Todd Akin====
:''See also: [[RINO Backers]]''
As the chairman of the [[National Republican Senatorial Committee]] in 2012, Senator Cornyn pulled $5 million in spending out of the toss-up [[Missouri]] race because the embattled [[pro-life]] nominee, [[Todd Akin]], spoke out too much for the [[unborn]].

====Russell Voight====
In October 2017, Cornyn announced he would block the confirmation of Russ Vought, a strong conservative, to the important position of Deputy Director of the Office of Management and Budget because he wanted the federal government to appropriate even more money than it already had for the state of Texas after a hurricane.<ref>Wegmann, Philip (October 20, 2017). [https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/john-cornyn-holds-top-white-house-nominee-for-ransom/article/2638199 John Cornyn holds top White House nominee for ransom]. ''Washington Examiner''. Retrieved October 20, 2017.</ref><ref>Pandolfo, Chris (October 20, 2017). [https://www.conservativereview.com/articles/john-cornyn-holds-conservative-nominee-hostage-for-swamp-kickback John Cornyn holds conservative nominee hostage for Swamp kickback]. ''Conservative Review''. Retrieved October 20, 2017.</ref><ref>Swan, Jonathan (October 19, 2017). [https://www.axios.com/john-cornyn-holds-up-top-white-house-nominee-2498698528.html John Cornyn holds up top White House nominee]. ''Axios''. Retrieved October 20, 2017.</ref><ref>Brian, Darling (October 23, 2017). [https://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2017/10/23/darling-john-cornyn-holds-trumps-omb-pick-hostage-extract-petty-revenge-conservatives/ Darling: John Cornyn Holds Trump’s OMB Pick Hostage to Extract Petty Revenge on Conservatives]. ''Breitbart News''. Retrieved October 23, 2017.</ref>

===Embracing Amnesty===
In 2020, after the Supreme Court upheld Obama-era amnesty program for immigrants in the USA illegally, Cornyn tweeted a statement saying that "DACA recipients deserve a permanent, legislative solution. We must take action and pass a law that will unequivocally allow these young men and women to stay in the only home they’ve ever known. They deserve nothing less." <ref>Waltens, Branden (June 18, 2020). [https://texasscorecard.com/federal/cornyn-embraces-amnesty-after-supreme-court-ruling/ Cornyn embraces amnesty after supreme court ruling]. Retrieved March 10, 2021.</ref>

===2020 U.S. Senate election in Texas===
In the primary held on March 3, 2020, Cornyn polled 1,481,357 unofficial votes (76 percent) and defeated four intra-party opponents. In the Republican primary was a 2014 primary candidate, [[Dwayne Stovall]], school board member from Cleveland in Liberty County, who finished second in 2020 with 231,294 votes (12 percent). Stovall polled 10.7 percent against Cornyn in the earlier 2014 primary. Also in the Republican primary was [[Mark Yancey]], a largely unknown grass-roots candidate from [[Dallas]], who claimed to have been uncommitted to special interest groups and called himself a "Common Sense Republican".<ref>{{cite web|url=https://voteformark.com/meet-mark/|title=Meet Mark Yancey|date=December 27, 2019}}</ref> Yancey polled 118,362 votes (6.1 percent). Both Stovall and Yancey faced a herculean task because of Cornyn's high name recognition among voters.

The Democrat primary went to a July 2020 runoff between [[MJ Hegar|Mary "M.J." Hegar]], who polled 412,897 votes (22.3 percent) and veteran state Senator Royce West, an [[African-American]] from [[Houston, Texas|Houston]], who drew 269,028 (14.5 percent). Narrowly edged out of the Democratic runoff was the Hispanic activist Cristina Tzintzan Ramirez, who received 244,705 votes (13.2 percent). Hegar won the Democrat runoff.

Turnout in the Democrat Senate primary was 1,853,323 votes; all of the Republican Senate candidates received a total of 1,926,477 votes, or 73,000 more than the field of Democrat candidates.

Cornyn defeated [[Democrat]] challenger Hegar in the November 3rd general election by around ten points.<ref>[https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2020-elections/texas-senate-results Texas Senate Election Results 2020], NBC News, November 3, 2020.</ref>
==Senate career==
In 2021, Cornyn seemed skeptical of the second impeachment of President Donald Trump by the Democrat-controlled U.S. House, saying it would encourage Republicans to impeach former Democrat Presidents in the future.<ref>Mena, Bryan. [https://www.texastribune.org/2021/01/25/ted-cruz-john-cornyn-impeachment-trial-donald-trump/ Ted Cruz, John Cornyn come out against Donald Trump's second impeachment trial], ''Texas Tribune'', January 25, 2021.</ref> He also pointed out an article by law professor Alan Dershowitz which stated that Trump could not be tried because he is no longer in office.

==References==
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==External links==
*[http://cornyn.senate.gov/public/ Official Site]
*[http://projects.washingtonpost.com/congress/members/c001056/ Voting record]

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