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Orrin Hatch was a prominent American attorney and politician who served as a United States Senator from Utah from 1977 to 2019. A member of the Republican Party, Hatch was known for his extensive work on a variety of issues, including healthcare, tax reform, and intellectual property rights. Throughout his tenure, he played a significant role in shaping legislation and was involved in numerous bipartisan efforts.
This nominee who was called outside the mainstream-- outside the mainstream--gets about three-fourths of the vote in that bastion of conservatism--California--and the other side suggests she is somehow unacceptably conservative? That is…
Very few people even argue one case. Mr. McCONNELL. He received outstanding recommendations from everyone with whom he worked. They were having a real struggle, weren't they, I say to my friend, the chairman, trying to find some basis upon…
And, by the way, was never applied to any nominee, to my knowledge, in the past. Miguel Estrada was singled out with a double standard for the sole purpose of defeating his nomination and getting him to withdraw. They were having a hard…
Absolutely right. Roberts was treated like all other nominees during the Reagan years, Bush 1 years, and the Clinton years. He was not asked to give his opinions on future issues that might come before the Circuit Court for the District of…
John Roberts, who was one of the finest appellate lawyers in the country, as was Miguel Estrada, was treated completely differently once the Judiciary Committee considered him. And I had to force them to consider him. Yet he passed this…
Miguel Estrada, as great an attorney as he is, having argued 15 cases before the Supreme Court, having the highest recommendation of the American Bar Association, their gold standard, they did not want him to come through this process…
Not a legitimate reason. The only reason was they believed him to be pro-life. I don't know whether he is to this day because we do not ask those questions.
They both worked there. They both were excellent appellate lawyers. By the way, Estrada worked not only with the Bush administration but with the Clinton administration. And he had high marks.
Four of the seven former Solicitors General were leading Democrats, who said that what the Democrats are doing is wrong.
These are the most confidential private papers of the Solicitor General's Office, the lawyer who represents all of the public.
As I was reading the Defense authorization bill, I noticed that under section 336, entitled ``Pilot Program for Best-Value Source Selection for Performance of Information Services,'' the conference committee had modified the normal…
This is all about abortion. After he spoke, he came up to me and he said: Senator, as you know, I am pro-choice, but you are absolutely right. This is all about abortion.
It was a bipartisan supported bill. Democrats and Republicans support this bill. It will pass if Senators are permitted to vote their consciences and are permitted to vote up or down without the phony delays of a filibuster, especially a…
No question that we usually do not have a filibuster on a motion to proceed, because if any of my colleagues are going to filibuster, they should filibuster the bill. By filibustering the motion to proceed, they can delay a vote on that…
The illustration should not be limited to just John Roberts and Miguel Estrada. There are a number of people who are on the Federal bench and who have served on the Federal bench who also served in the Solicitor's Office who were never…
Absolutely right. They were not requested. There was a different standard used with regard to Mr. Estrada--a very unfair standard knowing that the Solicitor General's Office could not allow a fishing expedition into those documents.
That is correct. Four of the seven former Solicitors General who are living today are Democrats, and all seven of them came out and said that these documents should not be given to the Senators of the United States because of their…
I can recall as recently as the last year of the Clinton administration, the chairman of the Judiciary Committee and others and myself voting for cloture on judges that we personally opposed and subsequently did oppose, even though we knew…
I have no doubt, to answer the Senator's question, if we continue down this pathway we are going to devolve to where people with strongly held religious beliefs are not going to be able to serve in this country. That is what it comes down…
I have no doubt that we have unset precedents in this body. My fear, I say to my friend from Utah, is that we crossed the Rubicon on the issue of filibustering judges.
I do agree with that. The Senator knows Bill Pryor better than anybody. He worked for the distinguished Senator when he was attorney general. I am absolutely amazed at how many Democrats and people of diversity and others in Alabama are…
He followed it as an elected political official. Now, if he can follow the law impartially as an elected political official, imagine the honor he would bring to the bench, where it's his job to be impartial. He did not have to do it as an…
As my colleague knows, I had to stand up to some in my own caucus. Not many. There were some, one or two, who wanted to filibuster President Clinton's nominees. As the Senator will recall, I stood up to that and said we are not going to…
Yes. I am so advised. I have studied the Catholic faith and I respect it deeply, as I do all religions.
Keep in mind, as of tomorrow, those two will be waiting for 2 solid years. We need to get them done, too. I call on my colleagues on the other side to get rid of their wicked and evil ways and allow these people to have votes up and down.
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