Orrin Hatch: “As America's founders designed it, the Senate's role of advice and consent is a check on the President's power to…”

Without adequate mens rea protections, that is, without the requirement that a person knows his conduct was wrong or unlawful, everyday citizens can be held criminally liable for a conduct that no reasonable person would know was wrong.

I believe he actually is likely to be better than many are saying, even on this panel, on things like voting rights.

Confirmation hearings are supposed to be an opportunity for the American people to hear from the nominee.

I intend to focus this morning on the investigation that was self-initiated by the Department of Commerce under section 232 of the Trade Expansion Act of 1962 to determine whether imports of automobiles and automotive parts threaten to…