Orrin Hatch: “Let me finish answering your question. He could have asked: What do you feel about the first amendment? Are you kidding?…”

“Let me finish answering your question. He could have asked: What do you feel about the first amendment? Are you kidding? That is not a question that should be asked a judicial nominee. And any judicial nominee would answer: What I feel is irrelevant--which is the way he answered it. It is what the law says. Frankly, he answered that time after time after time on question after question after question. Where were the written questions of the distinguished Senator from New York? They were not there. You had a chance to do it. You didn't do it. Now, after the fact, 2 years later, this man has been sitting there, waiting for fairness, being treated totally unfair, and he can't get--my gosh, he can't get a vote up or down, which is what the Washington Post says we should do.”