Jeff Sessions actually said...

You are a most able advocate for the judges from California that you believe in, and I always respect your insight.

It is clearly in accord with the most aggressive foreign law citation theories and I think are unacceptable.

I do believe that is a serious defect--I mean, a serious lack, at least, in any judge who goes on a court one step below the Supreme Court.

I consider them to be the most advanced statement of the activist judicial philosophy that I have seen.