Thad Cochran: “One question I have that has not been brought out here was that this suit not only requested a ruling as to these five…”

“One question I have that has not been brought out here was that this suit not only requested a ruling as to these five legislators, but, more important, with respect to Judge Dennis, it involved all legislators' records, as to whether or not they were public records. And the reason this is important as far as Judge Dennis is concerned--and did the committee know this?--that he was a legislator before he was a judge, and he had awarded scholarships to Tulane and therefore records that he had control over, under the ruling of the lower court, made him a party in interest even though he was not a named defendant?”