It looks like Susan Collins bet wrong on Brett Kavanaugh and Roe v. Wade

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It looks like Susan Collins bet wrong on Brett Kavanaugh and Roe v. Wade



https://www.cnn.com/2022/05/03/politics/susan-collins-roe-v-wade-kavanaugh/

Analysis by Chris Cillizza, CNN Editor-at-large

Updated 6:00 PM ET, Tue May 3, 2022
Watch: Sen. Susan Collins saying Supreme Court Justices won't overturn Roe v. Wade


(CNN)As Sen. Susan Collins was preparing to cast a deciding vote to confirm Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court in 2018, the Maine Republican insisted that he had told her directly that he considered Roe v. Wade settled law.


"My fervent hope is that Brett Kavanaugh will work to lessen the divisions in the Supreme Court so we have far fewer 5-4 decisions and so that public confidence in our judiciary and our highest court is restored," she said in a floor speech announcing her decision.
In an interview with CNN the following year, Collins, who supports abortion rights, said that Kavanaugh "said under oath many times, as well as to me personally many times, that he considers Roe to be 'precedent upon precedent' because it had been reaffirmed in the Casey v. Planned Parenthood case."

Similarly, Collins told CNN in 2018 that she didn't believe Justice Neil Gorsuch, who she voted to confirm the previous year, would want to overturn Roe v. Wade.

"I had a very long discussion with Justice Gorsuch in my office and he pointed out to me that he is a co-author of a whole book on precedent," Collins said at the time.

Which brings me to the draft opinion -- obtained by Politico Monday night -- that suggests the Supreme Court is planning to overturn Roe when it hands down its final decision, likely this summer.


"We hold that Roe and Casey must be overruled," writes Justice Samuel Alito in the draft text. "It is time to heed the Constitution and return the issue of abortion to the people's elected representatives."


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1. never thought of her as the brightest bulb in the lamp nt

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2. I'm not convinced she cares about abortion rights

She said what she thought she needed to say politically.

"Concern" is her way paying lip service to the left while doing what the right wants her to do.

[Kablooie]

3. No she didn't.

She knew that if she said she wanted to eliminate abortions she would lose votes so she lied.

[BigmanPigman]

4. You should have heard the loud "booo booo"

calls from the people at the protest I attended tonight when her name was mentioned.

[Pachamama]

5. Susan Collins and her "concern"

[Scrivener7]

6. Susan Collins got exactly what she wanted.

[PJMcK]

7. Collins is a disgrace

Maine voters should hang their heads in shame for continuing to send her to the Senate.

She's a mushy right-wing bullshitter.

[Zambero]

8. And "Don't impeach Trump since he's learned his lesson!"

Collins has emerged as hapless enabler extrairdinaire. I'll bet she never guessed that "getting fooled" could be so rewarding!

[NNadir]

9. I'm not sure if she was just a gullible idiot.

More likely she just didn't give a fuck. She's a member of the racist sexist thug party that is trying to make the US into a radical theocracy.

She owns it.

[Rebl2]

13. Absolutely

[Best_man23]

10. Susan Collins is the Poster Child for the "Frenemy"

Someone who claims their your friend, but actually makes underhanded snide comments about you and does things counter to your interests.

[Rebl2]

12. She is

A right wing hack like the majority of republicans.

[Harker]

14. She wasn't betting with her own stack of chips. n/t