Susan Collins Pretends Like She's Actually Going To Fight Donald Trump
July 3, 2018
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as posted by the channelAs Donald Trump salivates at the thought of installing a horrible Supreme Court Justice, Senator Susan Collins is trying to make it seems like she will chamption the cause of abortion rights. But will she? Sam Seder and the Majority Report crew discuss this.
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---With Supreme Court Justice Anthony M. Kennedy’s retirement last week, the stage is set, for the first time, for the court to have five votes for overturning the landmark Roe v. Wade abortion decision. Everyone following the nomination knows this. Everyone, apparently, except one U.S. senator: Susan Collins.
On both CNN’s “State of the Union” and ABC’s “This Week,” the Maine Republican displayed a remarkable naivete about the future of the court. After showing the pro-choice Collins a clip of President Trump saying abortion would be a “litmus test” for his nominees, CNN’s Jake Tapper asked, “Is it fair to expect that any nominee he selects will vote to overturn Roe v. Wade?” Collins replied, “Well, the president told me in our meeting that he would not ask that question. And that is what he has most recently said, on the advice of his attorney.” The senator repeated that sentiment on ABC, adding, “What I want to see is a nominee who, regardless of his or her personal views on the very difficult and contentious life issue, is going to respect precedent regardless.”
None of this passes the laugh test. “Respect precedent”? Last week five justices overturned four decades of precedent in labor law. Collins voted for three of them. And as for the president’s word, surely Collins knows that Trump’s word is worth approximately zero, especially when attorneys are involved. (Furthermore, the last time other Republicans prominently promised Collins something — to get her vote for the tax bill — they didn’t hold up their end of the bargain.)---
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