Correct me if I am wrong, but wasn’t Orrin Hatch a Reagan backer in 1976? Then by 1982, EMK had “instructed” him. Remember how ol’ Orrin “begged” Bill Clinton to “come clean” on Monicagate. And he was the leading GOP advocate of Ruth Bader Ginsburg too.
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CLINTON SELECTS GINSBURG FOR SUPREME COURT SEAT APPEALS COURT JUDGE, WOMEN’S ADVOCATE WINS HIGH PRAISE
St. Paul Pioneer Press (MN) - Tuesday, June 15, 1993
Author: Robert A. Rankin, Aaron Epstein and David Hessi, Washington Bureau
Ruth Bader Ginsburg, a trailblazing feminist lawyer and later a moderate federal appeals judge, appeared headed for easy Senate confirmation after being nominated Monday by President Clinton for a seat on the U.S. Supreme Court.
The surprise move ended weeks of speculation during which the president and the media focused on a half-dozen other candidates. It was the first court nomination by a Democratic president in a quarter of a century.
Both Senate Majority Leader George Mitchell, D-Maine, and Minority Leader Bob Dole, R-Kan., praised the president’s choice.
Orrin Hatch of Utah, the ranking Republican on the Senate Judiciary Committee, said: ``I don’t see any problem at all. She’s a brilliant woman with an impeccable reputation. Her record indicates she’s a very careful, thoughtful, methodical student of the law - and a very bright one to boot.’’
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