Cornyn supported U.S. involvement in the Saudi Arabian-led intervention in Yemen. In December 2018 he said that the U.S. should stand with Saudi Arabia despite the assassination of Jamal Khashoggi, saying: “Saudi Arabia is fighting a proxy war against Iran in Yemen, and an overreaction, in my view, would mean that we cancel arms sales and simply abandon our ally.”
Hate to abandon allies.
It seems like Cornyn’s position on “allies” is that if they have lots of money to buy weapons, it’s fine for them to do genocides and murder journalists, but if they don’t have much money, the US will stand by while they have genocide done to them. Like I don’t think I’m caricaturing his position much there.
Of course Consovoy is right out of the GMU / ASSLaw / Federalist Soc bag of dicks. What I don’t understand is why they are able to get serious play. They have to be at least as insane as GMU economists who are completely full of shit and bought by Koch money, but also the laughing stock of the profession. It’s anti-vaxxers at an academic medical conference. Distinguished Second Circuit just heard that Rock-n-Roll McDonald is literally a king from this doughboy:
