Orrin Hatch: “let's be honest about this. The Senator has been very blunt, very forthright and honest in his remarks that they intend…”

“let's be honest about this. The Senator has been very blunt, very forthright and honest in his remarks that they intend to stop Miguel Estrada and Priscilla Owen. So now we are in the second filibuster. Let nobody have any illusions, we did not know until now that literally they were going to filibuster Priscilla Owen. Now we have two first-time-in-history filibusters against circuit court of appeals judges because the minority does not like these two judges, even though both of them have their gold standard imprinted upon them, unanimously well qualified, by their gold standard, the American Bar Association. It is unseemly, and it appears to anybody who is a fairminded person that there is no real desire to treat Miguel Estrada, with all of his qualifications, and Priscilla Owen with all of her qualifications, in a fair manner. It is also very apparent that the President of the United States is not going to be treated in a fair manner as well. I have no objection to Judge Prado. If that is what they want to do, we will see about that, and we will see about it tomorrow. The fact is, that does not negate the fact that for the first time in history we have this type of obstruction rather than up-or-down votes of executive nominee judges for the circuit court of appeals.”