[okie01]

... reward his Mormon brotherhood by nominating the Church Lady Orrin Hatch with the cabinet post of AG or hold back in hopes of nominating brother Hatch for the Supreme Court.

Orrin Hatch will be 79 in March. He's not going nto be nominated to anything.

[Biblebelter]

You are right, he will be too old for the administration or to be nominated to the Supreme Court, but just senile enough to be re-elected to the Senate and meet the standards of Senatorial senility set by the likes of Strom Thurmond and Bobby Byrd.