Susan Collins Is Suddenly Opposing Trump's Court Picks Amid Tough Reelection Bid

[CatWoman]

The Republican senator didn’t vote against a single one of the president’s judicial nominees in 2017 and 2018. That changed in 2019.

Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine) didn’t cast a single vote against one of President Donald Trump’s judicial nominees in 2017 and 2018. But she suddenly got cold feet on some of his picks this year as she kicked off what’s shaping up to be one of her toughest reelection cycles yet.

Collins, the most senior Republican woman in the Senate, cast the deciding votes confirming several of Trump’s controversial nominees in recent years, including those deemed unqualified by the American Bar Association (ABA).

And though she says she’s “pro-choice,” the four-term incumbent has voted to confirm dozens of judges who have signaled they oppose abortion.

But Collins’ steadfast approval for the president’s court picks weakened in 2019 after Republicans picked up two more seats in the Senate during the previous year’s midterm elections.

She was able to oppose some of the nominees ― grabbing headlines and the goodwill of some of Maine’s Democratic-leaning voters along the way ― likely knowing full well that they would receive the confirmation votes needed from her Republican colleagues anyway.

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/susan-collins-opposes-trump-judicial-nominees-2019_n_5e00bed6e4b0843d35fef061?ncid=engmodushpmg00000003&fbclid=IwAR0xUDyEG1P_XoDVAIXuP4Ey5Rwf69DrP_S6J7yJMOraUJGvOE-ma7aV7mE

[Midnight Writer]

1. Whoopee-dooo. I look forward to her losing her Senate seat and sinking peacefully into the back page

[empedocles]

19. Be careful what you wish for

[marble falls]

2. She'll changer her mind next week.

[Midnightwalk]

8. Schroedinger's Senator

Until she decides even she doesn’t know if she decided. All decisions rescinded on Tuesday

[gratuitous]

3. Needs to bolster her "contrarians"

Collins' M.O. is to talk a good game of independence, then vote with the Republican majority every time. She's probably in close contact with McConnell to make sure that her vote isn't needed on this or that unqualified nominee so she can carry those votes back to Maine and show the people how independent she is as long as she has McConnell's permission. Did any of those nominees not get confirmed? Is McConnell bad-mouthing Collins for her votes? No and no.

Maine: Don't get fooled again.

[PSPS]

4. Only because her vote isn't needed. Typical GOP re-election dishonesty.

If she's re-elected, she'll roll her rubber stamp back to "Yea."

[California_Republic]

5. Very concerned

[Bhurel]

6. But will vote no to impeach

She's a phony.

[RandySF]

7. Too late.

[hatrack]

9. With all "no" votes carefully vetted to make sure they change ZERO outcomes

We. Don't. Give. A. Shit. Susan.

[Captain Zero]

10. Well. Lah-dee-fucking-dah

Sure hope voters in Maine don't fall for this.
But what she will do is add it to like a box score to make it look like she's all evened up.

[democrank]

11. Susan Collins

The human ping pong ball

[SunSeeker]

12. She.Voted.For.Kavanaugh.

She is irredeemable.

[catrose]

14. That's all we need to know

When it counted, she folded.

[SunSeeker]

15. Exactly. nt

[DFW]

13. Susan Collins is a fraud. A fake. She is McTurtle's tool, including serving as a weather vane

If Moscow Mitch wants to know what the last dying remnants of rationality in his Party are thinking, and to what extent they'll act on it, he floats Collins and her "concern" to see what the fuss is about. He then either suppresses it or ignores it, depending on whether or not he deems any action to be necessary.

Collins knows that once she leaves the Senate, she will be nothing more than a footnote. No one will want her opinion, no one will want to know about her time in the Senate. Her best hope is a teaching fellow at the University of Maine.

So, sure she wants to keep her seat. With any luck, the voters of Maine will have other preferences, and to the extent that Republican electoral fraud can't buy her another "surprise Republican upset victory" like we are so used to seeing.

[empedocles]

20. This is a state that has voted - ick, . . . legpage

We can do worse than Collins.

[DFW]

23. I know. I met the whole bunch of them in Bath 5 years ago.

Well, I had met Angus King 20 years before that, but had never met Collins or LePage, who were there, too. Collins was dull and boring, where LePage was an obnoxious boor.

[blm]

21. Exactly.

[raccoon]

16. Full me once, shame on you. Full me twice, won't get fooled again.

Full me once, shame on you. Full me twice, won’t get fooled again.

As a not so great American said.

[rzemanfl]

28. This response is full of it.

[spiderpig]

17. susan collins annoys the hell out of me

totally unprincipled which way is the wind blowing















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[pressbox69]

18. She needs to be dumped

[Ilsa]

22. Unprincipled. nt

[Buckeyeblue]

24. I'm sure she was told to get with the program or be primaried

Hopefully there is a strong Democratic candidate that can unseat her.

[NewJeffCT]

25. She probably got approval from Moscow Mitch

to vote against some judicial nominees since the Senate is 53-47 now and was 51-49 before. Losing 1 vote isn't as big a deal anymore.

[PJMcK]

26. Hey, Maine!

Get rid of this loser! You deserve-- and need!-- so much more.

Collins is useless.

[dewsgirl]

27. She going to have to come up with a lot more than this.🙄

[keithbvadu2]

29. But she is... concerned.

[Mike Nelson]

30. That's nice of her...

... but we need someone without the suddenly.

[OrlandoDem2]

31. God I can't stand her and anyone who falls for her fraudulent act. She's the WORST kind of

Republican. Talks like a moderate but votes with the far right the vast majority of the time.

More than any Republican except Trump, I want to see her lose.

[greatauntoftriplets]

32. Bless her heart.