Chuck Schumer actually said...

"Judge Sotomayor's story is a great American story and, I might add, a great New York story as well."

"And you have never relied on a foreign court to interpret U.S. law nor would you."

"The only point I am making here, if some are seeking to suggest that your empathy or sympathy overrules rule of law, this is a pretty good body of law to look at."

"The appropriate remedial scheme for deaths occurring off the United States coast is clearly a legislative policy choice which should not be made by the courts."