Orrin Hatch: “I thank my dear colleague from New Hampshire for his kind remarks, but also for his remarks about the nominee. No one…”

“I thank my dear colleague from New Hampshire for his kind remarks, but also for his remarks about the nominee. No one here wants to find fault with the nominee as a human being. But if you look at these opinions and you read them, you really have to be concerned. Especially at the time when we are awash in drugs, awash in crime, awash with all kinds of difficulties in this society, we do not need another person who ignores the laws and starts to put his or her own emotional predilections into the law instead of interpreting the laws made by elected representatives, who are elected to make them. Judges are not elected. If she gets this position she will be confirmed for life. If she continues to operate in the way she has on the Florida Supreme Court, I can predict a lot of difficulties in the fight against crime, not only in Florida, now, but throughout the country.”