Susan Collins says she had no idea Brett Kavanaugh was so anti-choice

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Source: raw story




Published 6 mins ago on June 29, 2020


After being shredded online Monday, Sen. Susan Collins (R-ME) was trying to clean up her vote to support anti-choice justice Brett Kavanaugh for the Supreme Court. Collins, who has long claimed to be pro-choice, said that she believed Kavanaugh when he lied to her saying that he would uphold all legal precedent for abortion cases.

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Kavanaugh, however, voted for the law to be upheld, flying in the face of his promise to Collins.


In a statement Monday afternoon, Collins claimed, “Kavanaugh gave no indication in his dissenting opinion that he supports overturning Roe.” It ignores the “precedent” of abortion cases other than Roe that Kavanaugh promised he would uphold.


Women’s rights group tried to tell Collins that Kavanaugh would be an anti-choice judge, but she refused to believe them. She’s now in the race for her political life for her votes being so far outside the mainstream of Maine voters.

Read more: https://www.rawstory.com/2020/06/susan-collins-says-she-had-no-idea-brett-kavanaugh-was-so-anti-choice/

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poor widdle Susan. she must be so sad.

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[world wide wally]

1. She is too stupid to be a US Senator

[Rebl2]

57. She is

just a liar like the rest of the R’s. She knew his stance on abortion.

[riversedge]

2. susan is so silly......

New: Susan Collins says in statement she agrees with today's Supreme Court decision striking down Louisiana's abortion law. She also says Justice Kavanaugh, who dissented in the case, "gave no indication in his dissenting opinion that he supports overturning Roe"

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[keithbvadu2]

27. Yep! Not gullible - just a liar.

[RhodeIslandOne]

3. Clean out your desk, Susan

She's a Republican, I do not think people should have expected her to be either pro-choice, nor honest.

[dem4evah]

31. She's an UTTER and total lying POS....

that said, I just donated another $25 to her opponent, Sarah Gideon...please do the same asap:

https://secure.actblue.com/donate/adopt-me-dem-susan-collins-seat

[brush]

4. I'm so concerned she's always so misinformed.

[AZ8theist]

20. She's not misinformed. She's a lying sack of shit. nt

[brush]

23. Yeah, you're right.

[Merlot]

5. Now she's lying too.

She's not silly or stupid. She has an agenda and is willing to do what ever is necessary.

[jcgoldie]

7. Exactly. shes not "gullible" shes just another liar

Is someone surprised?

[louis-t]

6. Take yer head out of yer ass, lady.

[NCjack]

8. Collins is lying. She is too weak to disappoint Trump.

[bucolic_frolic]

9. Stupid, Lying, or Incompetent

take your choice to describe Senator Susan Collins

[mpcamb]

46. DO Your homework! It's part of the job, you dumb-ass excuse for a senator!

[Laffy Kat]

10. Oh please. She sooo needs to go. nt

[riversedge]

11. 'Her fingerprints are all over this': Susan Collins pummeled after Brett Kavanaugh votes to uphold

‘Her fingerprints are all over this’: Susan Collins pummeled after Brett Kavanaugh votes to uphold Louisiana anti-abortion law
https://www.alternet.org/2020/06/her-fingerprints-are-all-over-this-susan-collins-pummeled-after-brett-kavanaugh-votes-to-uphold-louisiana-anti-abortion-law/



Written by Alex Henderson June 29, 2020


The U.S. Supreme Court, in a 5-4 decision, has struck down a Louisiana anti-abortion law, which required doctors who perform abortions to have admitting privileges in a local hospital. Justice Brett Kavanaugh was among the four dissenters, and Sen. Susan Collins of Maine is being slammed on social media for voting for Kavanaugh’s confirmation to the High Court in 2018.

When she came out in favor of Kavanaugh’s confirmation, Collins insisted that Trump’s nominee would be pro-choice in his rulings and recognize Roe v. Wade as “settled law.” In 2018, Collins asserted, ““Interest groups have speculated that Judge Kavanaugh was selected to do the bidding of conservative ideologues, despite his record of judicial independence. I asked the judge point-blank whether he had made any commitments or pledges to anyone at the White House, to the Federalist Society, or to any outside group on how he would decide cases. He unequivocally assured me he had not.”
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But as Kavanaugh’s ruling on the Louisiana law demonstrates, he is very much a social conservative in the Clarence Thomas/Antonin Scalia vein — a fact that Twitter users have been pointing out in their anti-Collins posts.

The Lincoln Project, a Never Trump conservative group, tweeted, “Kavanaugh tried to strike down a 4 year precedent, but instead strikes down Susan Collins’ 24 year Senate career.”....................................

[tavernier]

62. I love that last line.

[patphil]

12. There aren't any words that can accurately describe Susan Collins.

No matter how bad she appears to be, she's worse.

[EllieBC]

13. She's either a moron or a liar but either way unfit to be a

Senator.

[GulfCoast66]

64. Why not both? That my vote.

[bringthePaine]

14. horseshit, but fair trade for another nail in her electoral coffin

[Lonestarblue]

15. Utter bullshit. Collins is a useless senator.

[usaf-vet]

16. Susan you're to stupid to look at the evidence. You are the puppet from Maine. They know.....

..... what string to pull to make you dance to THEIR TUNE. Now hopefully they have danced you right to the edge and left you nowhere to go but over and home to Maine. For your sake, I hope stupid works there.

Kavanaugh played you like a New York pimp and you performed accordingly.

[roamer65]

17. This flip flop game that she plays is getting really old and irritating.

Mainers, please vote this piece of shit out of office.

[NurseJackie]

18. That woman is dumb. She is really dumb.

[marble falls]

35. Don't forget concerned. Susan Collins gets very concerned!

[ProfessorGAC]

36. I'll Raise You One "Really"

She is REALLY, REALLY dumb!
I think we both like it that way!

[NurseJackie]

38. For real!

Hey, Susan...

[ProfessorGAC]

39. +1

That gif made me laugh hard!
Dog thinks I've lost it!

[BaronChocula]

19. "I was only briefed that he might be a rapist"

Gimme a break

[beastie boy]

21. Nooooo!!!! It's not like tons of evidence were staring her right in the face, is it?

...And for her next trick... drum roll please... she didn't know that abuse of power and obstruction of Congress rose to the level of impeachable offenses!

[yaesu]

22. in another response Susan Collins had no idea 1 + 1 equals 2 nt

[Bengus81]

34. And...she had no idea Kavanaugh drank beer!!

[Bengus81]

24. Is she now em....."concerned"??

[pfitz59]

25. Way past time for her to go

How can Maine citizens keep her in office. Lying witch

[Scalded Nun]

26. Shove it up your ass Susie

You lying piece of shit

[greenjar_01]

28. He's a hardcore rightwing anti-abortion nut and a sexual predaor

Who didn't know this?

Please, Maine, get this dimwit out of the Senate.

[Marthe48]

29. Ignorance doesn't belong in the U.S. Senate

If you are a U.S. Senator, and you don't have time to do all of your own research, you hire people to do the research, and you check factoids they give you.
Other than that, collins is as big a liar as the impeached traitor.

[ouija]

37. Please

Calling her dumb is is giving her credit that she does not know what she is doing. She knows exactly what she is doing and what she is voting for. She is a Republican liar just like the lot of them and the good people of Maine should be insulted that she attempts to play them as fools.

[Marthe48]

56. I criticized her excuse of ignorance

and finished with saying she's a liar.

[aeromanKC]

30. Um, he was on the Heritage Foundation list of SCOTUS nominees they gave Trump to appoint!!

Susan, you certainly don't think the Hermitage Foundation is pro-choice do you!!??

JFC, you are an ignorant F'n %$&**, ^%$#$, *&^%$, **&^%!!!! (string of words that would get this post flagged)

[MissMillie]

32. Wouldn't it be her job to check that out?

And after all these years, shouldn't she know that?

[marble falls]

33. Oh jeez, get the smelling salts out! Sen Collins is concerned, very concerned!

[BigDemVoter]

40. The way she defended him, one would have thought she had interrogated him for hours.

She was ADAMANT in her defense-- just so SURE of herself. . . .

[warmfeet]

41. It's her fucking job to know.

Vote her out of office.

[CountMyVote4Reality]

42. She is an idiot.

She has far outlasted her shelf life.

[cstanleytech]

68. No, that would imply she was ignorant over it but she knew so she is not an idiot as she made

an informed choice when she choose to vote aye so she should rightly suffer the full political consequences.

[Aviation Pro]

43. Can't wait for her to be 'retired' from the Senate

So she can become a bag lady on some Portland street corner.

[stillcool]

44. what a load...

every time she opens her mouth.

[Skittles]

45. the man is a MISOGNYNIST

THAT should have been her first clue

[lonely bird]

47. In other news

President Trump learned his lesson.

My dog is way smarter than Susan Collins.

[dalton99a]

48. BULLSHIT - Everything went according to plan

"Hey, we fooled them real good!"

[IronLionZion]

49. Plenty of stupid people believe everyone else is stupid

She needs to lose big to Sara Gideon and then go be concerned somewhere else

[Orrex]

50. How hard can she go fuck herself before she actually turns herself inside out?

Because she should go fuck herself exactly that hard.

[regnaD kciN]

51. What. A. Shock.

[NNadir]

52. Yeah, and Kavanaugh gave Collins no indication that he attempted to rape a woman in college.

Collins is a right wing hack.

She, like all of the members of her party, hates America; until they attempted their radical reactionary program, The United States was a country where women controlled their bodies, where citizens had a right to be treated equally before the law, where the American President was not allowed to bribe foreign governments with impunity, etc, etc.

Collins made it very clear that she hates that America.

Let's just call her coat hanger Susie!

[ancianita]

53. She has no idea to begin with.

[WVreaper]

54. Burnt toast.

[sakabatou]

55. BULLSHIT!

[Lucky Luciano]

58. Yet another, "oh come on, how could this not be fucking satire!"

[randr]

59. Maybe now she will figure out why she is unfit for office.

Appointing a life term Supreme Court Justice without knowing where they stand on one of the most important issues her life time.
Absolutely mind numbing.

[SunSeeker]

60. She is such a fucking liar.

[rickford66]

61. So Borowitz's work is resembling real news more every day.

He really initially had me fooled on this one.

[RussBLib]

63. So much for Senators being astute

Time to step down and let someone with better judgement step up.

[pecosbob]

65. Deaf and blind hermit in Nepali cave responds, 'Even I knew he would overturn Roe v. Wade'.

'Are you people stupid or something?'

[mvd]

66. She didn't want to believe it

Worrying about her own election was what she did. Now, hopefully, she will be defeated by the Democrat.

[cstanleytech]

69. Negative. She knew but voted yes to him anyway and gambled that no abortion related case would

make it through SCOTUS until after the election.
That way she could have an easier time winning and when he made his first antiabortion ruling she would have time on her side for peoples memories to fade before the next election should she decide to run yet again.

[mvd]

70. I think she may have been afraid of her primary

But yes, I don’t feel these denials are genuine at all. How could she be so ignorant - just have to look at his past cases.

[cstanleytech]

67. BS Susan!! You knew damn well how he leaned so do not try your BS surprise with us.