Posted on 07/06/2018 9:14:16 PM PDT by conservative98
Republican Sen. Orrin Hatch may have offered a clue about who President Donald Trump will nominate to fill the vacancy on the Supreme Court left by retiring Justice Anthony Kennedy, days ahead of the planned announcement on Monday.
In a Friday op-ed article for Deseret News, a prominent newspaper in Hatch's home state of Utah, the longtime Republican lawmaker wrote a defense of the coming nominee amid a highly polarized and evenly split Senate.
"Too much is at stake to allow politics to corrupt the Supreme Court confirmation process," Hatch wrote. "That's why in the coming weeks, I will lift heaven and earth to see the president's nominee across the finish line."
The op-ed was notable for one reason: Hatch referred to the nominee using the pronouns "her" and "she."
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Don’t count your Hatches before they chicken
Why do you think that? Senate collegiality? That has been dead for decades.
From what I understand, Mike Lee has not made a lot of friends in the Senate. It would only take ONE Republican voting no because of Roe or whatever reason and he is denied unless he gets some Democrat crossovers and he probably won't.
You mean they’re going to be traitors to their sex?
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