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Obama Pinky-Swears: No Radicals

5:18 PM, May 4, 2009 • By MICHAEL GOLDFARB
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Statement from the Office of Senator Orrin Hatch:

In a phone conversation today, Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) urged President Obama against choosing a judicial activist for the Supreme Court vacancy. He advised the president to choose a nominee who is more in step with mainstream America and would uphold the rule of law. The president assured Hatch that this was his intention, that he would appoint a pragmatist, not a radical, to this important position.