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Hatch: Sotomayor has 'a problem'
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| Last Edited | Monsieur May 07, 2009 01:35pm |
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| News Date | Thursday, May 7, 2009 07:00:00 PM UTC0:0 |
| Description | Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) said Thursday that Judge Sonia Sotomayor’s past statement that the “court of appeals is where policy is made” would be a problem for her if she were nominated for the Supreme Court.
“That's a problem,” Hatch said during an interview on Fox News after being shown a clip of the Second Circuit Court of Appeals judge’s comment.
“She would have, I think, a more difficult time if she was nominated because of statements like that, and, of course, she has a whole raft of opinions that I think would have to be scrutinized very carefully,” he said.
Hatch said that he would prefer not to talk about “any individual person at this point” because he wants to “be fair to whoever is picked.”
“But I'll tell you one thing,” he added. “I'm not very happy about judges who will substitute their own policy preferences for what the law really is, who think that they can run the country from the bench when they actually have a limited role.” |
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