Orrin Hatch: “I am highly offended, and I think anybody who is fairminded would be highly offended by this one-sided, partisan attack…”

“I am highly offended, and I think anybody who is fairminded would be highly offended by this one-sided, partisan attack on Judge Kuhl, and bringing up that particular case because everybody knows that case was settled by the woman's doctor, the one who was at fault. And, frankly, that was hitting below the belt. Carolyn Kuhl, she is a pioneer for women: cum laude graduate of Princeton University; Duke University Law School: Order of the Coif; law clerk to then-Judge Anthony Kennedy of the Ninth Circuit. She worked at the Department of Justice: Special assistant to the Attorney General; Deputy Assistant Attorney General; Deputy Solicitor General. She was 28 years old when she was asked to work on the Bob Jones case. I think it is slanderous to say that Republicans support Bob Jones University's attitudes about race. Give me a break. Nobody on this side does, and neither did she. The case she worked on was a tax issue, and she had an obligation to work with her senior people in the Department. She was very junior at the time. And, frankly, they had a reasonable argument about a certain IRS tax exemption relevant to private universities. She was a partner in the Los Angeles firm of Munger, Tolles & Olson, one of the best law firms in the country. She is the first female supervising judge of the Civil Department of the Los Angeles County Superior Court. This is a woman of tremendous abilities.…”