Date: January 12, 2006
Senator: Kyl
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SPECTER: Thank you, Senator Leahy.
Senator Kyl?
KYL: Mr. Chairman, let me just thank the witnesses for being here. I just am moved to make one comment. I can't dispute the analysis of individual items here, but I think in law we're all familiar with the best evidence rule. And the best evidence of how Judge Alito would serve on the United States Supreme Court, it seems to me is not something that might have motivated him to be interested in the law 30 some years ago or something he even wrote as a young lawyer working in the administration, but rather his 15 years on the bench, number one; and secondly, how his colleagues have viewed his character as well as his judicial performance.
We've had almost three days to query him about all manner of issues. And I think to try to use the phrase cherry pick a particular comment that was made in a much different kind of context and read into that something more powerful than all of the other best evidence that we have is a real stretch. I'll just put it that way.
I nonetheless appreciate the effort that all of you have made to be here to enlighten us in these hearings. And I thank you for your testimony.
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