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Charles Hurt

Charles Hurt

churt@washingtontimes.com

Charles Hurt was the Opinion Editor and is a columnist for The Washington Times. Often seen as a Fox News contributor on the cable network’s signature evening news roundtable, Mr. Hurt in his 20-year career has worked his way up from a beat reporter for the Detroit News and Washington correspondent for the Charlotte Observer before joining The Washington Times in 2003. He later served as D.C. bureau chief and White House correspondent for the New York Post and editor at the Drudge Report. He can be reached at churt@washingtontimes.com.

Columns by Charles Hurt

Republican presidential candidate Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, speaks at a rally at the Southeastern Institute of Manufacturing & Technology in Florence, S.C., Monday, Feb. 15, 2016. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

CHARLES HURT: Another ill-advised (but self-serving) kamikaze stunt by Ted Cruz

Sen. Ted Cruz is one of those people who constantly wrestles with the Constitution -- and always wins. In his latest declaration to mount the barricades in defense of the Constitution, the Texas senator said he will "absolutely" filibuster any nominee the president puts forward to replace the late Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia.

February 16, 2016