Orrin Hatch
Orrin Hatch
Orrin Grant Hatchis an American politician who is the President pro tempore of the United States Senate, serving since January 2015...
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth22 March 1934
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I want to set things straight, ... I know Judge Pickering. I've had extensive conversations with him. He is truly a righteous and decent man.
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In this particular case, you have a man who, from the criminal law standpoint, has more criminal law experience than any justice in history, certainly more than any on the current court. Judges should not be concerned about ideology. They ought to be concerned about the principles of law that they should uphold.
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We must use a judicial, rather than a political, standard to evaluate Judge Roberts' fitness for the Supreme Court. That standard must be based on the fundamental principle that judges interpret and apply but do not make law.
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I don't see how anybody can justify a vote against Judge Roberts, unless they want to nitpick certain areas that you can nitpick on anybody,
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The important question is not what your views are on any particular issue, ... You are not campaigning for elective office. The question that needs to be answered is how you view the role of unelected judges in a representative democracy.
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I'm sure the president realizes that some would say this is a 'Wag the Dog' situation. It's an appropriate foreign policy response to terrorism at an appropriate time having obtained appropriate evidence and knowledge to justify the action.
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in large part to somehow send a message to President Bush as he deliberates on how to fill the remaining vacancy on the Supreme Court.
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I'm not a real fan of commissions but I do think if you get the right people on it you might come up with some way to solve this really serious problem.
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I know what a great man he is. He is honest, competent, a brilliant person. I think it's a real tribute to George W. Bush to pick somebody of that kind of caliber.
They just want to get it off their hands, and that's always been the case,
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It's not a bad thing to have somebody who might shake it up a little bit, ... I think it's important for the court to have someone like her on it, someone who has dealt with real-people problems.
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I'm gonna give it every chance, every shot I have, ... something that I think I have got to do in the best interest of our country, even though I'm a little late.
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I'm not going to second-guess my colleagues, but one of us has to stay neutral on this and hopefully give the administration enough ammunition to resolve this process,
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I know you, and I am familiar with your 30-year record in enforcing and upholding the law,