Orrin Hatch: “Apparently to the New York Times. The fact is, that case was written by the Supreme Court. He advocated, as any…”

“Apparently to the New York Times. The fact is, that case was written by the Supreme Court. He advocated, as any advocate, and he was representing, as I recall, one of the States. Another, Deborah Cook, regularly sides, as a state judge, with corporations. Oh, my goodness. You mean we have somebody who will be on the Federal bench who occasionally finds corporations might be right? What a terrible thing that must be, that corporations are right? Let's be honest about it. A lot of employment cases, almost every one that is good, is settled before it gets to court. It is only the hard cases that basically have to be tried. And in many instances, those cases are not good cases. Some on the other side seem to think, well, she sides with corporations. My gosh, she sides with who is right. And that is what we should do. Admittedly, sometimes it was a dissent, and she was known for the dissent. That is not bad. Dissenting judges play a noble role. You can disagree with cases but you cannot disagree with her integrity. No one would attack her integrity. In one case she maintained that a worker whose employer lied to him about his exposure to dangerous chemicals should not be able to sue for his injuries. That is the most oversimplification I have ever seen. It is wrong. Jay Bybee, who was heard from yesterday, has argued that United States senators should be elected by state legislators, not the voters. That is purely wrong; it is bunk.”