Orrin Hatch

by Mark Silva It's probably going to be impossible to forget listening to Vic Damone singing Sen. Orrin Hatch's Jesus' Love is Like a River in a nearly empty tent on a hot day at the Iowa GOP Straw Poll.......

by Mark Silva It's gotten a little heated here in the Swamp today, and we were looking for something to cool things down a little. Leave it to Sen. Orrin Hatch. The president already has called on the coach of......

by Mark Silva Judge Sonia Sotomayor, among the top in her classes at Princeton and Yale Law, with nearly two decades on the federal bench and now poised to become the first Hispanic member of the nation's highest court, makes......

After a long, thoughtful back-and-forth about the New Haven firefighters' discrimination case, Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) offered this closing sentiment on its lead plaintiff, Frank Ricci: "There's a rumor that People for the American Way, that these...

by James Oliphant The Judiciary Committee has cranked up the hearing again after a lunch break.(I had a cobb salad.) Because of the 12-7 imbalance on the committee, the Republicans are done speaking for the moment. Right now, Delaware's senator,......

Sonia Sotomayor continues her testimony Wednesday before the Senate Judiciary Committee (Win McNamee/Getty Images) by James Oliphant We're back at Hart 216 for the third day of the Sotomayor Supreme Court hearings. Stay here for real time analysis during....

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......

by Mark Silva and updated at 4:30 pm EDT The Senate Judiciary Committee is a day away from voting to recommend the confirmation of Judge Sonia Sotomayor, poised to become the first Hispanic member of the U.S. Supreme Court. Sotomayor......

by David G. Savage and Mark Silva Judge Sonia Sotomayor, poised to become the first Hispanic member of the U.S. Supreme Court, won the support of the Senate Judiciary Committee today in a lopsided vote cast largely along party lines......

by Mark Silva Full of sound and fury, but signifying nothing? If that's the case, what do the "civil" ones mean? Those boisterous town halls on health-care reform that members of Congress have confronted this summer may not say anything......