Am Law lawyers and advisors running for office had a mixed night at the polls.
As expected, Morgan, Lewis & Bockius appellate litigation partner Ted Cruz, a Tea-Party backed Republican, easily won his U.S. Senate race in Texas against Democratic lawyer Paul Sadler, taking over the seat formerly held by Republican Kay Bailey Hutchison. Cruz was heavily favored to win in Texas, which hasn’t elected a Democrat to the Senate since 1988, and took nearly 57 percent of the voteslightly less than what Mitt Romney earned in carrying the state. Cruz, who defeated the better-funded and better-known Lieutenant Governor of Texas, David Dewhurst, for the party’s nomination in July, made history by becoming the first Hispanic to win a Senate seat in Texas.
