At 81 years old, Sen. Orrin Hatch doesn’t think he’d be nominated or confirmed to the Supreme Court, but the Utah Republican said if he were, he’d extend his life just to spite Democrats.
“I’d be up for the job but I don’t think they’re going to appoint an 82-year-old man,” he told NPR Tuesday. Hatch turns 82 next month. “And I’m not sure I would want to be appointed and to have all the Democrats praying that I’d die real soon after. But if that happened I’d live another 20 years just to spite them.”
Sen. Lindsey Graham told CNN on Monday that the consensus choice for a nominee would need the support of a majority of Republicans.
Asked if there were any consensus choice, the South Carolina Republican said, “Probably not. Orrin Hatch is all I can think of.”
Obama has yet to announce whom he would pick to replace Justice Antonin Scalia, who died unexpectedly this past weekend, though the President has vowed to nominate someone despite Republicans demanding that the next Supreme Court nominee come from the 45th commander in chief.
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