Senator from Utah in history. He wants President Bush to set up a commission to propose judicial nominees from Michigan.
"As chairman, I cannot allow a blue slip to work as a veto based merely on political ideology where consultation really has occurred.
He added, "This committee has decided to devote its efforts to partisan political issues, to divisive and troubling nominations. However, both his home-state senators — Democrats Carl Levin and Debbie Stabenow of Michigan — refused to return "blue slips" endorsing his nomination. Politics • The six-term Utah senator expects a tough fight in 2012. Senator Orrin Hatch goes unpunished Philip Stortz (Jun 20)
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"To treat all these banks like they're a bunch of crooks and you have to watch everything they do is, I think, beyond the pale," he said.But on Monday he was busier trying to confirm Steven Mnuchin to be treasury secretary, a position with oversight of financial markets. Historical records and family trees related to Ruth Bangs. Hatch banks nearly $3M, expands campaign staff. Second, Democrats charged Hatch is aiming to violate a deal made three weeks ago where Democrats agreed to allow votes in the full Senate on 25 non-controversial nominees in exchange for President Bush agreeing not to use "recess appointments" to put on the bench controversial nominees while Congress is in recess.Meanwhile, Hatch signaled he will push other controversial nominees, too — and said he is holding hearings later this month on other 6th Circuit nominees that have been stalled.That came, in part, as Hatch tried unsuccessfully to force a committee vote on long-stalled nominee Henry W. Saad, nominated to the 6th Circuit Court of Appeals. Orrin Grant Hatch (born March 22, 1934) is an American attorney, retired politician, and composer who served as a United States Senator from Utah for 42 years (1977–2019). Senator in history and the longest-serving U.S. Such slips are designed to help ensure that the White House consults with home-state senators on nominees.However, Hatch said the lack of a blue slip traditionally will kill only nominees for federal district court (whose jurisdiction is within one state's boundaries) — but not the higher appeals courts (whose jurisdiction covers several states).Hatch said the White House did consult extensively with the Michigan senators and has long discussed possible compromises. After a three-week truce, Senate Judiciary Chairman Orrin Hatch, R-Utah, ignited political warfare again Thursday over judicial nominees. "WASHINGTON — After a three-week truce, Senate Judiciary Chairman Orrin Hatch, R-Utah, ignited political warfare again Thursday over judicial nominees.Hatch appealed to the committee to put aside partisanship to move Griffith's nomination soon. Records may include photos, original documents, family history, relatives, specific dates, locations and full names.
Democrats then, however, called for a closed-door session to discuss what they said were some troubling findings of the FBI background check on Saad.While the committee was in that closed-door session, enough members left so that it lost its quorum needed to operate — so the vote on Saad was blocked for at least another week.Hatch said Democrats are the ones twisting rules to block judges, and he is trying to stop that.Start your day with the top stories you missed while you were sleeping. ""I have always believed that the blue slip should not be employed as a mechanism for procedural obstruction," he said.