Susan Collins

An unsparing look back at her incredibly credulous statement when she voted to confirm Justice Brett Kavanaugh.

She was first elected to the Senate in 1996, but going back to the mid-1970s, she worked as an aide to then-Maine GOP Representative and later Senator William Cohen, the fellow who went on to become Bill Clinton’s last Pentagon chief. A person who has been functioning in that ecosystem for almost 50 years, years during which it has corroded from being a place of relative good faith to being the place it is today, where nearly every norm and custom is broken, is going to keep pretending that everything still works. And that is not forgivable.

In a statement reacting to the leak of a Supreme Court draft opinion that would overturn Roe v. Wade, Collins expressed shock that she had been misled by ...

Collins was at it again on Tuesday. In a statement reacting to the leak of a Supreme Court draft opinion that would overturn Roe v. Collins memorably provided the pivotal vote for Kavanaugh in 2018, delivering a fiery speech that largely defended him from Democratic attacks. At times, the Maine Republican seems to be either living in an alternate political universe or playing the role of a well-intentioned naïf on purpose.

Susan Collins said that the leaked draft, if true, is inconsistent with what Justices Neil Gorsuch and Brett Kavanaugh told her in meetings in her office.

“Well, I want to be very clear: unlike an apparent majority of the Supreme Court, I do not consider the rights of women to be dispensable. “Paul LePage and other anti-abortion Republicans on the ballot this November present the greatest threat to abortion rights in recent Maine history. “At Planned Parenthood, we know that banning abortion does not take away people’s need to access abortion care. Obviously, we won’t know each Justice’s decision and reasoning until the Supreme Court officially announces its opinion in this case,” Collins said Tuesday morning. That’s likely to make abortion the top issue going to into the midterm elections at all levels. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, written by conservative Justice Samuel Alito, would upend the nearly 50-year-old precedent on abortion rights in the United States. It’s an unprecedented leak from the high court, which some observers likened to the publication of the Pentagon papers.

Collins, a moderate Republican swing vote in the Senate, said in an interview in 2018 she did “not believe that Brett Kavanaugh will overturn Roe v. Wade.”

Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) said during a speech Tuesday he will bring a vote in the Senate to codify the right to an abortion. Wade. The draft, signed by Justice Samuel Alito, calls Roe “egregiously wrong,” and is stamped with a message indicating that it was sent to other justices on February 10. Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine) said Tuesday that a leaked draft of a Supreme Court decision that would overturn Roe v. Wade” during a speech on the Senate floor in 2018. Politico published a purported draft opinion, obtained by an unnamed source, that appears to show a majority of the court agreeing to overturn Roe v. Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) called the leak “an attack” on the Court’s independence, and called for an investigation by Chief Justice John Roberts and the Department of Justice. House Republican Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) said in a joint statement with Reps. Steve Scalise and Elise Stefanik that the leak was a “clearly coordinated campaign to intimidate and obstruct the Justices” and also called for an immediate investigation.

Republican Senator Susan Collins suggested Supreme Court Justices Neil Gorsuch and Brett Kavanaugh misled the Senate on whether they would support ...

(And/or he was just lying).— Al Franken (@alfranken) May 3, 2022 Wade:— j.d. durkin 🌱 (@jd_durkin) pic.twitter.com/WDwFxtNtgu May 3, 2022 Maybe now she understands SCOTUS can unsettle settled law. Collins in February proposed legislation with Alaska Republican Lisa Murkowski that would codify abortion rights precedents. Thanks, Susan Collins— Joyce Alene (@JoyceWhiteVance) May 3, 2022 Wade Supreme Court ruling, though it’s likely to fail. Wade because it would indicate a lack of respect for precedent,” Collins said in a 2018 “60 Minutes” interview. Anything. Ever.— Jesse Mermell (@jessemermell) May 3, 2022 His three appointments solidified the Court’s conservative majority. And she’s NEVER wrong.— Bryan Behar (@bryanbehar) May 3, 2022 “Obviously, we won’t know each Justice’s decision and reasoning until the Supreme Court officially announces its opinion in this case.” Wade:— j.d. durkin 🌱 (@jd_durkin) pic.twitter.com/WDwFxtNtgu May 3, 2022

Sen. Susan Collins, R-Maine, suggested on Tuesday that Supreme Court Justices Neil Gorsuch and Brett Kavanaugh lied to her about their stance on abortion.

"To say that this case, this most recent case, in which he wrote a very careful dissent, tells you that he's going to repeal Roe v. Even in 2019, after Kavanaugh was the lone dissenter to a majority opinion that blocked the Georgia legislature from curtailing abortion access, Collins stuck to her guns. Her comments come just a day after Politico published a leaked copy of the Supreme Court's initial draft majority opinion on Roe v.

Resurfaced comments from Collins show that she said on several occasions that Kavanaugh told her he viewed Roe v. Wade as a "settled law."

What Judge Kavanaugh told me, and he's the first Supreme Court nominee that I've interviewed out of six who has told me this, is that he views precedent not just as a legal doctrine, but as rooted in our Constitution." It is time to heed the Constitution and return the issue of abortion to the people's elected representatives." Wade stance showed that in one 2018 appearance on CNN, she said that she does not believe he would overturn the decision. The report that the Supreme Court is poised to roll back abortion rights nearly 50 years after the landmark Roe v. Resurfaced comments from Collins show that she said on several occasions that Kavanaugh told her he viewed Roe v. Though a Republican, Collins has asserted that she is in favor of abortion rights and was seen as one of the GOP swing voters who could have opted to vote against Kavanaugh's confirmation.

GOP Sen. Susan Collins said on Tuesday that a Supreme Court draft opinion that would overturn Roe v. Wade published by Politico was "completely ...

Planned Parenthood decisions the law of the land, and that's what I'd like to see," Collins said. "The deal that Lisa Murkowski and I introduced, it would, in my judgment, have broader support. The opinion would be the most consequential abortion decision in decades and transform the landscape of women's reproductive health in America. Collins later told reporters on Tuesday that she wants to see Roe v. The opinion in this case is not expected to be published until late June. "Obviously, we won't know each Justice's decision and reasoning until the Supreme Court officially announces its opinion in this case."

Brett Kavanaugh U.S. Supreme Court associate justice nominee for U.S. President Donald Trump right and Senator. Photograph by Andrew Harrer / Bloomberg / Getty.

“As I watched his Senate testimony, I felt even more confident that he had told me the truth,” she added. “When I met with Justice Kavanaugh before his confirmation hearings, he looked me in the eye and said that he considered Roe v. “Nothing in his confirmation hearings suggested that he would ever be less than trustworthy with a woman.”

Gorsuch called it “settled law”—”in the sense that it is a decision of the U.S. Supreme Court.” (Tell me something I didn't already know.) Kavanaugh was even ...

Gorsuch called it “settled law”—“in the sense that it is a decision of the U.S. Supreme Court.” (Tell me something I didn’t already know.) Kavanaugh was even vaguer, calling it “settled as precedent.” Collins implied today that both justices made clear to her in meetings that they would not end Roe. Well, wrong. Declined comment when I asked her if Kavanaugh lied to her. Collins was always too willfully ignorant to see it. This was always conservatives’ endgame. For years, Collins, like many of us following the news at home, seems to have been clinging to the hope that maybe the Supreme Court would respect precedent, despite the conservative legal movement’s long and obvious battle to someday overturn Roe. “So I think that a lot of people on the left and pundits have been wrong about how the court has respected precedent,” she said last year on CNN. “I think they will look at precedent and reach their decision.” “If this leaked draft opinion is the final decision and this reporting is accurate, it would be completely inconsistent with what Justice Gorsuch and Justice Kavanaugh said in their hearings and in our meetings in my office,” she said in a statement.

Sen. Collins said a leaked Supreme Court draft opinion that suggests Justices Gorsuch and Kavanaugh would support overturning Roe v.

When then-Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., met with Kavanaugh, NBC News reported he was unsatisfied with the nominee's answers on Roe v. Wade, saying Kavanaugh refused to say whether that case or Planned Parenthood v. Both Collins and Murkowski voted in favor of Gorsuch's confirmation. Murkowski, who opposed his nomination, voted "present" as a courtesy to Sen. Steve Daines, R-Mont., who supported Kavanaugh but missed the vote to attend his daughter's wedding. At the time, Collins, who supports abortion rights, said his opinion on whether Roe v. We had a very good, thorough discussion about that issue and many others."

The two senators insist they were mislead about the intentions of Donald Trump's Supreme Court nominees.

As of Tuesday, Collins and Murkowski were both said to be against getting rid of the filibuster, which would allow the Senate to pass legislation codifying Roe v. Planned Parenthood of Indiana and Kentucky Inc., arguing to uphold an Indiana law that would have required doctors to notify the parents of a minor seeking an abortion; and dissented in the case of Commissioner of the Indiana State Department of Health v. (I guess if you can’t believe two guys who had the backing of Trump, who can you believe?) Collins added, in a sad attempt to hold out hope that she didn’t get played, “Obviously, we won’t know each justice’s decision and reasoning until the Supreme Court officially announces its opinion in this case.” In the case of Collins, the senator from Maine famously swore that Brett Kavanaugh had assured her the landmark ruling was “settled law” and therefore nothing to worry about. Collins and Murkowski, you see, are self-described pro-choice lawmakers who nevertheless chose to cast key votes for Donald Trump’s Supreme Court nominees, despite the fact that Trump had very clearly vowed to appoint judges who would overturn Roe v. Wade is overturned, and it’s looking very likely that that will be the case, millions of pregnant people will lose the right to an abortion overnight.

Sens. Susan M. Collins (Maine) and Lisa Murkowski (Alaska) provided key Senate support to justices who now appear poised to overturn Roe v. Wade.

Wade, according to a leaked draft of the opinion published by Politico and confirmed by Chief Justice Roberts. Senate Democrats may be especially disinclined to try to woo Collins or Murkowski considering that, even with their support, any bill preserving abortion rights nationally would still remain well short of the 60 votes needed to vault a Senate filibuster. In a lengthy speech laying out her decision to confirm Kavanaugh, Collins explained her conclusion that the assault allegation ought to be set aside because of the competing claims and lack of firm evidence, and she also set forth her belief that he would not vote to overturn Roe or the other landmark case on abortion, Planned Parenthood v. But they said that all of the indications that the three Trump judges could ultimately overturn Roe were plain to see. They have offered a competing bill, the Reproductive Choice Act, that is much more narrowly drawn than the Democratic bill and does not have any other co-sponsors. While she ultimately opposed Kavanaugh, citing a lack of judicial temperament because of his heated testimony surrounding the sexual assault claims, she also publicly said that she did not think he would overturn Roe based on “extended conversations with the judge.” But her political situation is markedly different: She represents a GOP-tilting state where she very well might be the most appealing candidate on the November ballot for moderate and left-leaning voters after the most prominent Democrat dropped out of the race last month. “I mean, if you’re trying to bind a judge so they’ll never overturn a case, then that’s not good for the country.” “He responded: ‘Emphatically no.’ And that, to me, is the right approach. The draft opinion, however, serves as a bitter vindication of sorts for Democrats who warned that the confirmations of the Trump-nominated justices would throw abortion rights into question nationally. “We don’t know the direction that this decision may ultimately take,” she said. “Obviously, we won’t know each Justice’s decision and reasoning until the Supreme Court officially announces its opinion in this case.”

The development put the greatest spotlight on U.S. Sen. Susan Collins, a Republican who has expressed support for abortion rights but voted to confirm two ...

At the state level, Democratic Gov. Janet Mills pledged to protect reproductive health rights in Maine: “Unlike an apparent majority of the Supreme Court, I do not consider the rights of women to be dispensable. But former Republican Gov. Paul LePage, who is now running to take back the Blaine House from Mills, affirmed his opposition to abortion. But it is only a *draft* opinion and ABORTION REMAINS LEGAL in this country. Golden: “As an elected official, I have consistently held and openly shared my pro-choice position with regard to abortion and women’s access to reproductive healthcare options. If the Court ultimately chooses to reverse Roe v. Obviously, we won’t know each Justice’s decision and reasoning until the Supreme Court officially announces its opinion in this case.”

The senator's past votes for anti-abortion judges are being questioned after a report that the Supreme Court is likely to overturn Roe v. Wade.

Collins also declined to support the Women's Health Protection Act in 2021, angering many abortion-rights advocates. "I support codifying Roe. Unfortunately the bill ... goes way beyond that. Wade, while abortion rights advocates warned that Kavanaugh could vote to overturn the decision. She has long faced criticism for her support of Kavanaugh, who went through a contentious confirmation hearing. Rather than ideology, Collins said she uses qualifications, experience, and respect for precedent when considering judicial nominees. Collins, a centrist Maine Republican, has long marketed herself as for abortion rights to her constituents.

The Maine Republican says if the Justice decided to scrap Roe, he was 'completely inconsistent' on the point during his confirmation process to the U.S. ...

Obviously, we won’t know each Justice’s decision and reasoning until the Supreme Court officially announces its opinion in this case.” “The Ob-GynPAC supports candidates who share our priorities across issue areas,” spokesperson Kate Connors said in a statement. “The best health care is provided free of political interference in the patient-physician relationship. “Abortion is an essential component of women’s health care,” according to ACOG’s website. Wade, according to a draft opinion written by Justice Samuel Alito that Politico posted Monday night. Collins was a key vote in both men’s confirmations.

Overturning Roe v. Wade would have wide-ranging implications for abortion access in much of the U.S..

“I know that you’re not supposed to predict how the Supreme Court is going to rule,” Collins began. “Roe v. She, along with Gorsuch and Kavanaugh, provide the majority needed for the court to overturn Roe v. Wade, along with the Affordable Care Act, in late October of 2020, the day after Barrett was confirmed to the Supreme Court. Collins later voted against confirming Justice Amy Coney Barrett to the court in the fall of 2020, although she cited procedural concerns due to the proximity of the presidential election, and never weighed in on Barrett’s qualifications or judicial philosophy. In a statement Tuesday morning, Collins noted that the public would not know each justice’s decision and reasoning until the Supreme Court officially announces its opinion.

US Senators Collins and King, Gov. Mills, and Republican challenger Paul LePage issued statements after the leak of a draft Supreme Court decision that ...

“In every state in the nation, 70% of Americans oppose a federal ban on abortion care. The government shouldn’t be able to tell anyone what to do with their own bodies. “Well, I want to be very clear: unlike an apparent majority of the Supreme Court, I do not consider the rights of women to be dispensable. “Governors receive Legislation on their desk from locally elected State Representatives and State Senators. In Maine, our local officials listen to the people. “As the child of a severely dysfunctional family, with domestic abuse that left me homeless, I know my mother faced difficult decisions and I am glad she chose life. “The decision being considered in this preliminary draft would eliminate a longstanding fundamental right supported by 64 percent of Maine people and 70 percent of Americans in one fell swoop.