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Orrin Hatch
@orrinhatch· Republican · UT· Mar 19, 2017

I am worried about the ordinary American, and sometimes even the non-American.

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Orrin Hatch
@orrinhatch· Republican · UT· Mar 19, 2017

I have seen all kinds of judges come before this Committee, and there have been a number of great ones.

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Orrin Hatch
@orrinhatch· Republican · UT· Mar 19, 2017

There is no question that any fair observer would say how lucky we are to have you nominated.

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Orrin Hatch
@orrinhatch· Republican · UT· Mar 19, 2017

I am very proud of you and the service that you are giving to our country.

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Mike Lee
@mikelee· Republican · UT· Mar 19, 2017

The confirmation process has become political.

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Mike Lee
@mikelee· Republican · UT· Mar 19, 2017

In fact, it does not get much more little guy than a David going against a Goliath that is the Federal Government.

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Mike Lee
@mikelee· Republican · UT· Mar 19, 2017

Judge Gorsuch's opinions reflect the principle Justice Scalia spent his career defending, that in a democracy the people's elected representatives, not judges, get to decide what the laws should be and what laws we should have.

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Mike Lee
@mikelee· Republican · UT· Mar 19, 2017

It would be unfair for anyone to state or to imply that you then are responsible somehow for the expressive conduct of third parties.

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Mike Lee
@mikelee· Republican · UT· Mar 19, 2017

If your focus is on their identity, the focus is likely to be different.

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Mike Lee
@mikelee· Republican · UT· Mar 19, 2017

What you are seeing here is the confluence that occurs by operation of the Constitution between law and politics.

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Orrin Hatch
@orrinhatch· Republican · UT· Mar 19, 2017

We are entitled to protection, too, under that law.

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Orrin Hatch
@orrinhatch· Republican · UT· Mar 19, 2017

Any sincerely held religious belief cannot be abridged by the Government without a compelling reason

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Orrin Hatch
@orrinhatch· Republican · UT· Mar 19, 2017

It is important to know whether you are a surrogate for President Trump or for particular interest groups.

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Orrin Hatch
@orrinhatch· Republican · UT· Mar 19, 2017

It does perhaps its most important work in protecting unpopular religious beliefs, vindicating the Nation's longstanding aspiration to serve as a refuge of religious tolerance.

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Orrin Hatch
@orrinhatch· Republican · UT· Mar 19, 2017

I was one of its authors. I talked Senator Kennedy into coming on board.

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Orrin Hatch
@orrinhatch· Republican · UT· Mar 19, 2017

It is emphatically the province and duty of the judicial department to say what the law is.

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Orrin Hatch
@orrinhatch· Republican · UT· Mar 19, 2017

It is about restoring the constitutional allocation of powers between the three branches.

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Orrin Hatch
@orrinhatch· Republican · UT· Mar 19, 2017

I am a Chevron skeptic, and have led the fight to overturn this decision legislatively with my Separation of Powers Act.

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