Senator Hatch Debates Gorsuch Nomination, Summarizes Filibusters Since Bork

Utah Senator Orrin Hatch engages in the floor debate over the nomination of Judge Neil Gorsuch to sit on the Supreme Court, saying that having borked Judge Bork, smeared Justice Thomas, instigated the filibuster on lower court nominees when it was in the interest, filibustered Justice Alito and then eliminated the filibuster for lower court nominees, Democrats expect Republicans to throw up their hands and allow them to block Gorsuch. Hatch says Democrats shortchanged a voting threshold when it suited their interest, seeking for the first time in history to block a Supreme Court nominee with clear majority support, saying that to put the matter bluntly, he and Republicans are set up with the Democratic Party and six, will no longer be bound by their games, that he regrets the point that the Senate is at as an institutionalist, that Democrats had started the Senate on that path 30 years earlier to the confirmation process, and that he will vote for the nuclear option as he refuses to award Democrats after 30 years of bad faith, concluding enough, Mister President, enough.