Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) blasted Democrats and the onslaught of last-minute sexual assault allegations against Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh (pictured above left) Wednesday, when he insisted that the nation should not “put up with it” any longer.

“It’s amazing to me that these kinds of things have come up way after the fact, way after the end of the committee hearings,” said Hatch, a member of the Senate Committee on the Judiciary overseeing Kavanaugh’s Senate confirmation process, according to CNN congressional correspondent Phil Mattingly.

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“It shows there are people who would stop at nothing. I don’t think it’s fair to Brett Kavanaugh, I don’t think it’s fair to our system, I don’t think it’s fair to the process,” Hatch (above right) added. “I don’t think we should put up with it, to be honest with you.”

Christine Blasey Ford became the first woman to come forward publicly September 16 when she accused Kavanaugh of sexually assaulting her during a high school party in suburban Maryland some 36 years ago.

Although Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) received Ford’s allegations in a July letter, she didn’t make them public until September 14 and after they surfaced anonymously — apparently as a result of a leak from Democrats on the Senate Committee on the Judiciary.

Kavanaugh’s confirmation experienced another setback late Sunday, when former Yale classmate Deborah Ramirez accused him in an article for The New Yorker of exposing himself to her at a drunken dorm party in college.

And lawyer Michael Avenatti, known for representing porn star Stormy Daniels in her lawsuit against President Donald Trump, unveiled a third accuser Wednesday. Julie Swetnick alleged that Kavanaugh was involved in gang rapes in his adolescence and claimed that she attended more than 10 high school parties during which Kavanaugh and his friends allegedly drank heavily and acted inappropriately.

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“I also witnessed efforts by Mark Judge, Brett Kavanaugh and others to cause girls to become inebriated and disoriented so they could then be ‘gang-raped’ in a side room or bedroom by a ‘train’ of numerous boys,” Swetnick wrote in a sworn affidavit to the Senate Judiciary Committee.

“I have a firm recollection of seeing boys lined up outside rooms at many of these parties waiting for their ‘turn’ with a girl inside the room. These boys included Mark Judge and Brett Kavanaugh,” Swetnick claimed.

The Supreme Court nominee has unequivocally denied all of the sexual assault allegations against him and says he looks forward to defending himself during the Senate Judiciary Committee hearing Thursday, where Ford will also appear.

Of Swetnick’s latest allegation, Kavanaugh said in a statement issued by the White House, “This is ridiculous and from the Twilight Zone.”

“I don’t know who this is, and this never happened,” Kavanaugh insisted.