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...Aram H. Hatch Jr. '44-'43 will never forget the greeting his sergeant gave him when he reported for duty to a Texas army base, en route to service in Okinawa, Japan...
While the Racial Justice Act's fine points are steeped in legal arcana, the bill inspired fierce rhetoric in the Senate last week. The act, said Orrin Hatch of Nevada, "has nothing to do with racial justice and everything to do with abolishing the death penalty" by employing "unreliable and manipulable statistical quota." To the act's defense came Carol Moseley-Braun of Illinois -- with statistics. Since 1988, she said, the government has sought the death penalty for drug kingpins in 36 cases involving four whites, four Hispanics and 28 blacks. Said Moseley-Braun: "Keep in mind that...
...Senate. Above all, the President doesn't want a messy confirmation fight. On that score Breyer, a onetime chief counsel to the Senate Judiciary Committee, which will vote on his nomination, can't be beat. In fact, he has the support of such ideological opposites as Orrin Hatch and Ted Kennedy...
...nomination that raised the most worrisome prospect, a real confirmation battle. Last year the Interior Secretary angered Senators from Western states by trying to raise fees for grazing, mining and water rights on federal lands. As Babbitt pulled out in front of the other choices last week, Utah's Hatch, the ranking Republican on the Senate Judiciary Committee, predicted a fight. Though minority leader Robert Dole told the President privately that Babbitt could still be confirmed, probably by a vote of 80 to 20, the White House remained concerned about the possibility of a revolt spreading among Senate Democrats from...
According to the Associated Press, a StateDepartment spokesperson called the message "a grayarea" and said the department "will have to lookat" whether Flynn violated the Hatch...