Sen. Mike Lee is confident he can hold off a stiff challenge from Evan McMullin and says one of his focuses if he is elected to a third term will be to continue his fight to restore the constitutional principles of federalism and the separation of powers.
. A year later, Lee’s father returned to Provo to resume his deanship at the law school. And from 1981-1985, the family was back in the nation’s capital, where Rex served as the U.S. Solicitor General under President Ronald Reagan.
The two have remained lifelong friends. Reid was in Washington in 2011 to witness Lee being sworn in for his first term in the U.S. Senate. Sen. Reid was also there to take the oath of office for his last term as Supreme Court Justices Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito, both friends of the Lee family, looked on.
Lee soon returned to Salt Lake City to serve as an assistant U.S. attorney, preparing briefs and arguing cases before the 10th Circuit of Appeals. He then served as general counsel to Utah Gov. Jon Huntsman Jr. “He impressed me as a brilliant young attorney who had a deep appreciation of our Constitution and an exceptional commitment to the rule of law,” wrote Alito, who clerked for Lee’s dad when Rex was U.S. Solicitor General.Some of Lee’s closest friends and ideological allies in the Senate are Cruz, Paul and Rubio. Cruz and Lee often have dinner together. The Lees and the Cruzes have even vacationed together at Lake Powell.
“Mike is by far my closest friend in the Senate, and I love the man like a brother,” says Sen. Ted Cruz. The two are pictured here in September 2020. The senator’s lone objection to the creation of a national historic site in Colorado to commemorate Japanese Americans who were forcibly interned during World War II also drew fire from critics.
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