Oaks’ change of venue
Dallin H. Oaks may have given up his shot at sitting on the nation’s highest bench in 1984, when he left as a Utah Supreme Court justice to become an apostle.
“If he had wanted it, he could have been appointed to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia, a position seen as a steppingstone to becoming a member of the U.S. Supreme Court,” biographer Richard Turley, told interviewer Kurt Manwaring. “His name ended up on lists of potential Supreme Court appointees. He let his friend Antonin Scalia take one such opportunity that might have been his, and Scalia was later appointed to the Supreme Court.”
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Utah’s minority political parties welcome Oaks’ talk disputing belief that Latter-day Saints should be Republicans
Church leader said in General Conference that ‘we should never assert that a faithful Latter-day Saint cannot belong to a particular party or vote for a particular candidate.’
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President Dallin H. Oaks, first counselor in the governing First Presidency, speaks at General Conference about the U.S. Constitution on Easter Sunday, April 4, 2021.
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That sentiment shared in a speech from Dallin H. Oaks, first counselor in the church’s governing First Presidency has quickly been embraced by members of Utah’s minority political parties. They have long worked to dispute the assertion that being a good Latter-day Saint means you should also be a Republican.