Orrin Hatch: “That is true. All seven living Solicitor Generals--four Democrats, three Republicans--oppose this request. The Democrats…”

“That is true. All seven living Solicitor Generals--four Democrats, three Republicans--oppose this request. The Democrats are Archibald Cox, Seth Waxman, Drew Days, and Walter Dellinger. The Republicans are Charles Fried, Robert Bork, and Ken Starr. I might add that both the Washington Post and the Wall Street Journal oppose the demand for these memos. There is good reason for that. When the Democrats requested the memos, they requested his recommendations on appeals, his recommendations on certiorari petitions, his recommendations on amicus curiae briefs. Never in the history of the Justice Department have those type of materials that are privileged, confidential work product materials been given to this branch of Government or any other branch. The Democrats have said there are four or five cases where the Department of Justice materials have been given. They have scoured the Justice Department; the administration and the current Justice Department have scoured those records, and they have found in all but Bob Bork there was no evidence anybody had given up those records to anybody here. If they have records, they must have been leaked by friends of the Democrats in the administration. They were not provided by the Justice Department. In the case of Bob Bork, they did give some special request memoranda, because it was up to the Supreme Court, affecting the area involving his decisions with regard to Archibald Cox.”