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Hatch Thinks Obama Used "Code"

Saturday, May 9 2009

Susan Marie Kovalinsky
(This op-ed originally published in Musings in Obama's America)

Utah Republican Senator Orrin Hatch has said this week that he believes when President Obama spoke of future Supreme Court justices needing "empathy", he was in fact using "code" for "activist judges". Many on the right believe that Obama could stack the Supreme Court during his presidency, and view him as "to the left of, and far more radical than, FDR.".

The country is tipping to the left, in a natural chronology out of what took place in excess in the '90s and early part of this decade. Obviously in times of transition and change, the losing side becomes gripped with anxiety as they see changes taking place over which they have little control, and which are diametrically opposed to their partisan and ideologue interests. Seen as a radical leftist with a socialist agenda by some, Obama strikes fear into their hearts as they imagine him making a clean sweep regarding the second amendment and other constitutional protections.

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