Orrin Hatch: “They were completely different documents. They had nothing to do with recommendations for appeals, certiorari petitions…”

“They were completely different documents. They had nothing to do with recommendations for appeals, certiorari petitions, or amicus curiae matters. No. They have never, ever been asked for before, to my knowledge, and they have never, ever been given, nor would they. By the way, there have been some limited documents given by the Justice Department in some nomination matters, none of them related to what were requested by the Senate Democrats in this matter. And there are only a couple of cases where the Attorney General did allow that. The other cases, they appeared to have been leaked by friends of Democrats at the Justice Department. So they were not given up by the Justice Department. We have more than made that case throughout this debate. There is no question about it. And it is just another phony argument. I do not blame my colleague from Nevada for not knowing that. But I think it is time to learn it.”