Orrin Hatch: “If I could just add one more sentence. I just want to get this all out in one or two or three paragraphs. As an example…”

“If I could just add one more sentence. I just want to get this all out in one or two or three paragraphs. As an example of a consitutional situation where standing will not lie, litigants literally cannot sue or complain about the President's control over foreign policy. They just cannot. So I wanted to get that one point out. But, yes, the Court will pay attention to this. Yes, the Court will pay attention to section 6 of this amendment. And, yes, it is almost--I do not see any way that you could show standing and show that kind of particularized harm that you could show in Reynolds versus Sims. It was not hard for the Court to make that transition and decide Reynolds versus Sims the way it did. Some may disagree with the decision. Some may say that, yes--as the Senator did--for a fairly long period of time they treated the whole issue as a political question. But there is a far greater difference between deciding a fundamental right like the right to vote and enforcing a constitutional amendment that makes it very clear that Congress has the power to enforce and to take care of the details of the amendment itself. Now, what is important here, in my opinion, is that--I value my friend from Louisiana. He knows it. We have been friends for the whole time I have been here. I have respected the work that he has done in the Senate. I hate to see him leave. And I think the Senate will be not as good a place once he does leave.…”