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After hearing Reagan's appeal, Sen. Alan Simpson (R-Wy) switched from the opposition ranks to support of the sale. The president won a similar turnaround from Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) on Tuesday. In addition, six previously uncommitted senators declared yesterday they would back the president. All had been considered likely to take that position...
...legal theory underlying the New Right campaign is primitive in its simplicity: if federal courts interpret the law of the land in a way you do not like and you cannot muster the votes to amend the Constitution, then hamstring the courts. Says Utah's Senator Orrin Hatch, a cautious supporter of the New Right crusade: "The federal judiciary has been courting disaster by reading its own predilections in the Constitution...
...first simulator in 1929 and, as the head of Link Aviation from 1935 to 1954, went on to produce trainers for radar, gunnery and space navigation. Starting in the 1950s, he helped to develop a series of manned ocean explorers, including the first practical submersible with an exit hatch to allow divers to explore the ocean floor at far greater depths than before...
...purpose of racial integration. His move has so far been blocked by a Senate filibuster by liberal Republican Lowell Weicker of Connecticut. Moreover, Helms' effort has been complicated by another rider proposed by Democratic Senator Bennett Johnston of Louisiana that would overturn existing busing orders as well. Meanwhile, Hatch plans to introduce a bill to limit the power of fedral courts-up to, but not including, the Supreme Court-to order busing. That would bring up a whole new issue for the New Right: whether to concentrate on restricting the power of courts, which conservatives are convinced...
SCHOOL PRAYER. Helms has reintroduced a bill banning Supreme Court review of cases involving prayer in public schools, and a Senate Judiciary subcommittee has scheduled hearings on it for next January or February. But Hatch has scheduled competing hearings on a plan of his own to restrict the powers of lower courts, but not the Supreme Court, to rule on prayer as well as busing cases...