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Hatch Reveals Republican Angle on Sotomayor Hearing

By | 07.13.09 | 10:53 am

Senator Orrin Hatch just tipped us off as to how Republicans intend to fight the Sotomayor nomination:  As a Supreme Court justice, he warned, she’d be in a very different position than on the Second Circuit Court of Appeals.

Rather than simply follow precedent, as is the role of an More…