The Utah congressional delegation intends to vote to name the new federal courthouse in Salt Lake City after Sen. Orrin Hatch. By this act, the delegation ignores the will of the Utah Legislature.
In 2013, the Legislature passed House Joint Resolution 9, which urged the congressional delegation to name the courthouse after George Sutherland, the only Utahn to serve on the U.S. Supreme Court.
The resolution detailed Justice Sutherland’s public service to the people of Utah, including as a trial lawyer, founder of the Utah State Bar, overseer of the Utah State Hospital in Provo, state senator, author of Utah’s first worker’s compensation statute, a U.