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- We feature an extended excerpt of Senator Al Franken (D-MN) grilling
Supreme Court nominee Judge Neil Gorsuch during his Supreme Court
confirmation hearing about the so-called frozen trucker case of Alphonse
Maddin. Gorsuch ruled it was right for Maddin to be fired after he
disobeyed a supervisor and abandoned the trailer that he was driving,
because he was on the verge of freezing to death. "It is absurd to say
this company is in its rights to fire him because he made the choice of
possibly dying from freezing to death or causing other people to die
possibly by driving in an unsafe vehicle," says Sen. Franken. "It makes
me question your judgment."
