Harry Reid: “These clearly indicate that Bolton acknowledged materials would be forthcoming. The reason these are important is that…”

“These clearly indicate that Bolton acknowledged materials would be forthcoming. The reason these are important is that we have said this man who has no judicial record whatsoever--and I heard the distinguished Presiding Officer give a statement yesterday about the many judges who have been distinguished who have not had judicial experience. We have never debated that. We agree, one does not have to have judicial experience to be a good judge. If that were the case, there would never be any good judges, quite frankly. Somebody has to start someplace. In fact, we would never have judges. That is what is referred to as a red herring. We have never alleged that Miguel Estrada is disqualified from being a judge because he has not been a judge. That is something that the majority has talked about a lot, but we have never raised that as an issue. What we have said is that those instances where we can learn something about his political philosophy and his philosophy as it relates to jurisprudence, we need to know something about that.”