Orrin Hatch: “Edward Whelan, who clerked during the October 1991 term and later served as my counsel when I was ranking member of the…”

“Edward Whelan, who clerked during the October 1991 term and later served as my counsel when I was ranking member of the Judiciary Committee, and is now president of the Ethics in Public Policy Center; Paul Clement, who clerked during the October 1993 term and later served as Solicitor General of the United States, and he is now a partner in the Bancroft law firm; Mark Phillip, who also clerked during the October 1993 term and later served as a U.S. district judge, and is now a partner at Kirkland & Ellis in Chicago; Brian Fitzpatrick, who clerked during the October 2001 term and is now an associate professor at Vanderbilt Law School; and Brian Killian, who clerked during the October 2007 term, and is now an associate at the Bingham McCutchen law firm in Washington. In closing, all Americans owe Justice Antonin Scalia a deep debt of gratitude. Every day he serves on the Supreme Court Justice Scalia gives a gift to all of us. He is reintroducing us to the principles and to the document that make our liberties possible. He invites us, in the words of the Kellogg's Corn Flakes commercial, to try it again for the first time. I return to the scene of his first judicial confirmation hearing in 1982. The constitutional amendment process was underway that day, but it was rightly happening on the Senate floor rather than in the confirmation of a Federal judge.…”