“We’re taking the nomination process to a place it was never intended to go by the framers of the Constitution,” Graham said. The South Carolina Republican lamented the questions being asked of Gorsuch and suggested his colleagues were trying to prod the nominee into taking firm stances on hot-button issues. He compared the current, fraught political environment with the sense of duty that surrounded the nominations and confirmations of previous Supreme Court justices. “What has happened over time is that, somehow, someway, we’ve gone from [Justice Antonin] Scalia, the originalist, getting 98 votes, [Justice Ruth Bader] Ginsberg, the bastion of liberalism on the court, well qualified, getting 96 votes,” Graham said. ‘If you don’t agree with my basis view of the world, I cannot vote for you.’"

Source: Fox News March 22, 2017 16:30 UTC