Analysis Of Ted's Memoir, A Time For Truth

From just accepting rumors that he is the Zodiac Killer to watching porn with supreme court justices—Ted is a strange guy. According to Maclean's Canada author, Jason Markusoff, Ted was born on a -9 degrees Celsius December day in Canada to parents Rafael Cruz and Eleanor Darragh. When Ted was born, they named him Rafael after his father, and consequently they called him by his father’s childhood nickname: Felito. In grade school, Ted’s classmates would call him Dorito, so at 13 he changed his name to Ted. According to Biography.com editors, when Ted was 2, the Cruz family then moved to Houston, Texas where Ted grew up. After graduating high school, Ted attended both Harvard and Princeton. After law school, Ted served as a Supreme Court clerk. …show more content…
He states that most of the justices are very old, so they set up a computer to show the justices just how easy it was to find pornographic images online. Ted and the other clerks of his group went in with Chief Justice Sandra Day O’Connor (see figure 1) and the librarian misspelled the word “cantaloupe” and turned the safesearch off. Ted writes, “After she pressed “return,” a slew of hard-core, explicit images showed up on screen. Here I was as a twenty-six-year-old man looking at explicit porn with Justice Sandra Day O’Connor who was standing alongside the colleague she had once dated in law school. As we watched these graphic pictures fill our screens, wide-eyed, no one said a word. Except for Justice O’Connor, who lowered her head, squinted slightly, and muttered, “Oh,