Today Sen. Al Franken, D-Minn., addressed Judge Neil Gorsuch’s opinion in the “frozen trucker case,” where a truck driver was fired over actions that saved his life but required him to briefly abandon his trailer.

While a majority of the Tenth Circuit Court panel ruled that the firing was unlawful, Gorsuch dissented and found that the firing was legal.

Franken recounted the facts of the case, noting that Gorsuch’s opinion seemed to abandon any sense of reality: “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 an unsafe vehicle. That’s absurd. Now I had a career in identifying absurdity, and I know it when I see it. And it makes me question your judgment.”

As noted in the report, “Real People, Real Lives: The Harm Caused By Judge Gorsuch,” Gorsuch essentially argued that a “law passed to protect workers from being forced to drive unsafe vehicles doesn’t cover workers who drive away to avoid the particularly unsafe situation of death”: