senator hatch, a member of the judiciary committee, spoke recently at the heritage foundation. good evening, ladies and gentlemen. welcome to the tenth annual joseph story distinguished lecture. on behalf of the heritage foundation, and our center for legal and judicial studies, it s great to welcome all of you here tonight. tonight s event is part of our preserve the constitution series. which we have at this time of the year. we hold this story lecture each year in conjunction with our legal strategy forum which brings together almost 50 freedom-based public interest law organizations from around the country. it s chaired by our distinguished director of the center for legal and judicial studies, john malcolm, who s with us tonight. you ll meet him later on. the story lecture honors a distinguished american lawyer and jurist. he is described by historians as probably having one of the most distinguished and significant impacts on the early legal history of the united stat
utah republican senator orrin hatch talked about the history of judicial confirmations and confirmation of justices brett kavanaugh and clarence thomas. senator hatch is a member of the judiciary committee. he spoke at the heritage foundation in washington, d.c., for an hour and ten minutes. good evening, ladies and gentlemen. welcome to the tenth annual joseph story distinguished lecture. on behalf of the heritage foundation, and our center for legal and judicial studies, it s great to welcome all of you here tonight. tonight s event is part of our preserve the constitution series. which we have at this time of the year. we hold this story lecture each year in conjunction with our legal strategy forum which brings together almost 50 freedom-based public interest law organizations from around the country. it s chaired by our distinguished director of the center for legal and judicial studies, john malcolm, who s with us tonight. you ll meet him later on. the story lecture h
retiring senator orrin hatch talked about the history of judicial confirmations in a speech at the heritage foundation. he spoke at length about the confirmations of justice brett kavanaugh and justice clarence thomas. this is part of the distant was lecture series and is just over an hour. good evening, ladies and gentlemen. welcome to the 10th annual joseph story lecture. on behalf of the heritage foundation and the center for legal and judicial studies, great to welcome all of you here tonight. tonight s event is part of our preserve the constitution series that we have this time of year and a story lecture each year in conjunction with legal strategy for him which brings together almost 50 freedom based public interest law organizations from around the country. chaired by our distinguished director of the center for legal institution studies john malcolm who is with us today, you will meet him later on. this on is a distinguished american lawyer and journalist who is
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