I'm not naive. Sometimes interpretation is more of an art than a science. There are those who would label interpretation absolutely anything a judge might do or, two, the text of a statute or the Constitution. But it seems to me there comes a point where a judge is using his own creativity and purpose and crosses the line between interpreting a text written by somebody else and in a sense creating something new.
Orrin HatchThe place where you got to get revenues has to come from the middle class. That's where the huge number of people that are there. So the system does need to be revamped [to tax the rich less and the middle class more.]
Orrin HatchThis principle that judges are not politicians lies at the very heart of a judicial job - of the judicial job description.
Orrin HatchThere is a good reason they call these ceremonies 'commencement exercises'. Graduation is not the end; it's the beginning.
Orrin Hatch