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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We're after the skinny cats, ... If you come vote for us, you'll be members of the skinny cat club.
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I think this vote is part of a long practice, ever since the confirmation battle over Justice Rehnquist to become chief justice, where Republican nominees have been treated in a despicable fashion.
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If they want to vote against him, you know darn well they're captives of these ... very liberal outside groups ... and they're demanding they vote against him even though they don't have one good reason to, ... I really don't believe that's the case but if that happens, then you can see why we're in such a partisan gridlock here in Washington, because the Democrats can't even support someone this good.
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This vote should have been 100-0. But 78 senators applied the right standard in evaluating a judicial nominee - a nonpolitical standard - and that's a good sign.
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He's going to have to abide by the canons of judicial ethics, which basically state you never discuss things which might come up before your court in the future, ... no matter how much they badger him or say they aren't going to vote for him.
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In a sense, it's a foregone conclusion as to what the final vote is going to be,
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If people can't vote for you, then I doubt they can vote for any Republican nominee.
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I do think that the leadership has to do a hard count and determine whether or not there are 34 or more who would not vote under the current circumstances and the knowledge that we have today for impeachment under any circumstances.
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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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And that is, ... we could file a motion to adjourn with the following language: that basically we ... acknowledge the impeachment vote of the House, we acknowledge, if this is true, that we do not have or even have a chance of having 67 votes for conviction, and we acknowledge that the impeachment vote in the House is the highest form of censure or condemnation for this president's despicable acts. And if you do that, that basically adjourns. It ends the battle.
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I've never seen anyone do a better job. You have made a very, very strong presentation here.
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It would be a national catastrophe if they can only be given to the wealthy.
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is not a myth, it is a reality.
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These are all people who didn't have one ounce of judicial experience . . . yet rose to be great justices,