Media Advisory: Hatch to Host Live Video Q&A With International Space Station
Washington, D.C.—Senator Orrin Hatch, R-Utah, the senior Republican in the United States Senate, has successfully secured a live 20-minute video feed from the international space station to Logan, UT on May 19th, 2017.
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Hatch Urges Colleagues to Leave Politics Out of Gorsuch Confirmation
WASHINGTON, D.C.—Senator Orrin Hatch, R-Utah, a member and former Chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, spoke on the Senate floor today in support of Judge Neil Gorsuch’s nomination to serve on the United States Supreme Court.
In his remarks, Senator Hatch praised Judge Gorsuch’s commitment to impartiality and independence—a requisite characteristic for any nominee to the Supreme Court. Hatch also condemned the partisan impulse to subject nominees to an ideological litmus to gauge their commitment to political causes. Instead, a nominee’s fitness to serve should be determined by his or her dedication to administering justice irrespective of politics or popular opinion.
Political judges take away from the people the power to govern themselves and undermine their liberty. Using political or ideological litmus tests in the quest for such political judges, demanding that they take sides and insisting that they make commitments to certain policy agendas before even taking office, poses a similar threat to the independence and impartiality of the judiciary. There is nothing mainstream about political judges, and nothing mainstream in the tactics used to appoint them.
In contrast, impartial judges are consistent with the principles on which our system of government is based and the independence that judges must have. When Judge Gorsuch took his seat on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit in 2006, he took the oath required by Title 28, Section 453, of the United States Code. He pledged to administer justice without respect to persons and to faithfully and impartially discharge his judicial duties.
I want to suggest that my colleagues try an experiment. Ask your constituents whether judges should make up their mind on a case before hearing all the evidence and arguments. Ask whether judges should take positions on issues before those issues come before them in court. I know what Utahns would say.
Last week, Senator Hatch made the case to Utah for Judge Gorsuch’s Nomination. [VIDEO]
Senator Hatch has spoken previously on the Senate floor on Judge Gorsuch’s nomination:
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