Orrin Hatch

by James Oliphant Sen. Orrin Hatch, a former chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, used his opening remarks to criticize President Obama for his stance on former GOP judicial nominees. While Obama was a senator, Hatch noted, he opposed the......

(AP/Gerald Hebert) by James Oliphant We are here again in Hart 216 and Judiciary Chairman Patrick Leahy has begun his first round of questions. Each member of the panel will question Judge Sotomayor in 30-minute periods. Stay with the......

Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) began her 30 minutes of questions with a pointed defense of Sotomayor after the tough but fair questioning posed by GOP Sens. Jeff Sessions of Alabama and Orrin Hatch of Utah. Feinstein, like Sen. Patrick Leahy......

As the Salt Lake Tribune put it, there was a time in Utah politics when Republican officeholders could view their first election as a lifetime appointment. Not anymore. First, members of the state GOP meeting Saturday declined to let Sen.......

BCS responds to Sens. Orrin Hatch and Max Baucus....

You know things are topsy-turvy when Mexico’s right-wing president is lauded by leftists here and in the U.S. — and attacked by conservative Republicans with whom he ought to be ideological brethren. But for President Felipe Calderon, two issues —...

KIEL, Wis. - The hundreds of people who lined the main street of a small Indiana city Saturday fell solemnly silent as a white hearse passed by on its way to the church. Mourners streamed into a Wisconsin gymnasium to remember a soldier who once...

Utah Sen. Orrin Hatch was called a "homophobic moron" for saying that "gays and lesbians don't pay tithing, their religion is politics."...

How do you turn the most personal of traumas into a very public good? How do you leave behind victimhood and become a victor? Ask Debbie Smith. For her work on behalf of rape victims and in advocating for federal legislation, passed last October, that...

Orrin Hatch isn't done with BCS fight....

Urban Meyer helped Utah get into the Pac-10....

by Michael Muskal Sen. Orrin Hatch, a key Republican on judicial issues, announced Friday that he will vote against the confirmation of Elena Kagan to sit on the Supreme Court. Hatch, of Utah, a former chairman of the Judiciary Committee,......