Q for Senator Hatch: While your getting po’d, Senator, what do you think of your colleague, Susan Collins, telling Mark Judge to make out and send back what amounted to a sworn statement without running it by his lawyer...?
I don't know if you're characterizing Collins' request to Mark Judge correctly. When I read her request I understood it to mean: "Thank you for the letter from your attorney, but that letter does not constitute 'evidence' of any kind. In order for your statement to have any value in a legal proceeding, it must come in the form of a sworn statement from YOU, not a denial from your attorney."
Even a dim bulb like a U.S. Senator would have known that Judge's attorney was still going to be involved.