On her 9:00 a.m. ET hour show on Tuesday, NBC anchor Megyn Kelly took Democrats to task for opposing President Trump’s Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh, declaring that they “lost this fight on November 8th, 2016" and were just being “bitter.” She added that “Trump deserves his choice.”

“To me, I find this so irritating,” Kelly said of the expected confirmation fight. “Scalia was confirmed by a vote of 98 to nothing....Elena Kagan, Sotomayer, confirmed with high 60s votes, right? In the high 60s in the Senate – 67 for, 63 for the other,” she explained. The host further proclaimed:

The Democrats lost this fight on November 8th, 2016. The only question now is whether Brett Kavanaugh is qualified to take this office....Trump deserves his choice, just like Obama deserved his choices. Sotomayer belongs on that bench, so does Kagan, so does Kavanaugh.

Appearing as a panelist, fellow NBC anchor Craig Melvin remarked: “What about the last choice that Obama had?” NBC News Legal Analyst Daniel Goldman chimed in: “Yeah, that’s ultimately what this is about.” Melvin continued: “But you can appreciate why a lot of folks on the left – ”

Kelly interrupted: “They’re bitter, I get it....They should have taken out their bitterness on November 8th, 2016.”

Another member of the panel, Amy Holmes, host of PBS’s In Principle, predicted: “I think what we’re going to see as we’re moving forward – we’re seeing it right here at the table – is that there’s going to be a huge fight over the direction of the court, what that means.” Kelly reiterated: “That fight has already been lost by the Democrats.”

The anchor then proceeded to offer a defense of the originalist view of the Constitution:

Antonin Scalia used to say from the bench – and I sat on the court three years for Fox News listening to the arguments every day, in addition to my 10 years as a lawyer – and what originalists, like Scalia, like Kavanaugh believe is not that they should be making law from the bench. Their position is not, “We hate abortion” or “We hate” whatever the rights are. Their position is, “Why would you want nine gals and guys in robes making these decision for you? We’re just going to tell you what the Constitution requires and what it doesn’t require. And if you want the law to say something else, go take it up with the people who actually do have to answer to you, the ones you elect.”

Goldman immediately jumped in to bash the conservative judicial philosophy:

It’s a legal slight of hand to say that originalists are not activists. Over the last decade or more, the, quote, “originalists” have been incredibly activist, they’ve struck down many laws. And that’s what the conservative right has been pushing for, for three decades. And this is finally what they believe is their success story to get the court with five very, very conservative members.

Wrapping up the discussion, Kelly again scolded Democrats:

But I’m telling you, if you sat at home on your bottom on November 8th, 2016 because you just didn’t whatever, then you have waived your right to complain. [Applause] Trump put out his list of people he wanted to nominate and most of them were far to the right of Brett Kavanaugh. And the American public put him in office. This is what elections are for. Presidents get the right to appoint Supreme Court justices, the Senate has the final say.

It’s refreshing to see someone at NBC hold the left accountable and point out the political reality.

Here is a transcript of the July 10 segment: