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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using the appropriations process to 'go on the offensive' and seek to restrain a federal law enforcement agency that has an obligation to enforce the laws.
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Although the attorney general is, of course, the federal government's chief law enforcement officer, you have an independent obligation to ensure that the nation's laws are upheld,
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JFK Jr. was doing everything right. He got his law degree, worked as a prosecutor, started George... I expected sometime in the future he would definitely have gotten into politics,
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Sue the industry and have them cave in or face imminent financial ruin by having to defend an avalanche of legally dubious lawsuits and bad publicity. That's their game plan,
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(Clinton) has an obligation as the highest official in this government, sworn to uphold the Constitution and the laws of this country. If he doesn't do that, I think public opinion would turn overwhelmingly against him, ... Face The Nation.
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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.
law judging results
We should evaluate judges and judicial nominees based on the general process for applying the law to any legal disputes, not on the specific result in a particular case or dispute.
hands order law
Judges who take the law into their own hands, who make up constitutional 'rights' in order to strike down laws they oppose, undermine the people's right to have their values shape public policy and define the culture.
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By admitting they have no contingency plan to assist the millions that may lose subsidies, the administration confirms how the misguided law is unworkable for the American people, i'm committed to working with my Republican colleagues on how Congress can respond to help those hurt by Obamacare's broken promises.
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The only ones who will see an increase in pay are some of the trial lawyers who bring the cases.
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We must use a judicial, rather than a political, standard to evaluate [a nominee's] 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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In my legal practice, I have seen certain Federal judges controlled or influenced by large corporations..., by large law firms...on more than one occasion(, and) ...by special interests...(some) ought to be thrown right off the bench because they are breaking every code of conduct...
government law judging
In our system of government, the judicial and legislative branches have different roles. Judges are not politicians. Judges must decide cases, not champion causes. Judges must settle legal disputes, not pursue agendas. Judges must interpret and apply the law, not make the law.
gun should-have law
If gun laws in fact worked, the sponsors of this type of legislation should have no difficulty drawing upon long lists of examples of criminal acts reduced by such legislation. That they cannot do so after a century and a half of trying - that they must sweep under the rug the southern attempts at gun control in the 1870-1910 period, the northeastern attempts in the 1920-1939 period, the attempts at both Federal and State levels in 1965-1976 - establishes the repeated, complete and inevitable failure of gun laws to control serious crime.