He's not a lawyer or a prosecutor. Judiciary is not enough qualification. Besides, he sponsored the Dream Act with fat Ted my senator. Put somebody who will enforce the laws at Justice.
I think Orrin should pursue his singing career.
Or perhaps he could join the tech industry and help develop the technology to destroy your computer if it contains anything the RIAA doesn't think you ought to have.
Hatch is a lawyer, but he has no experience as a prosecutor.
I'm more intrigued with the possibility that his leaving would give Frist and the Senate leadership a chance to increase conservative clout on the Senate Juduciary Committee. I'm more concerned with getting two or three solidly conservative SCOTUS justices onto the bench than I am with what happens in the USDOJ over the next four years.
"He's not a lawyer or a prosecutor"
His last legitimate employment was as an iron lather.
[Hatch] was awarded a full honors scholarship to the University of Pittsburgh Law School... In 1962, he received his Juris Doctorate, graduating with honors.
After receiving his law degree, Senator Hatch was a practicing attorney, first in Pennsylvania then in Utah, until his election to the United States Senate in 1976.
He is a lawyer, and was on the University of Pittsburgh Law Review back in 1959-1963 or so...(it's been so long since I've seen the plaque that I don't remember).