Washington • Sen. Orrin Hatch on Tuesday snapped at a protester during a feisty first day of Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh’s confirmation hearings.
“I don’t know that the committee should have to put up with the type of insolence taking place in this room today,” Hatch said after protesters attempted to shout over his prepared remarks.
"Mr. chairman, I think we ought to have this loud mouth removed,” Hatch told Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, about one person in particular.
Hatch, himself a former Judiciary Committee chairman, was participating in his 15th Supreme Court confirmation.