Susan Collins Will Oppose Controversial Judicial Nominee Steven Menashi

[fleur-de-lisa]

Source: Huffington Post

Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine) said Wednesday that she will vote against President Donald Trump’s controversial court pick Steven Menashi.

“I intend to oppose his nomination,” Collins told an activist involved with the progressive groups Demand Justice and the Center for Popular Democracy Action. The activist approached the senator in the hallway of a Senate building. (Watch the video above to catch Collins’ remarks.)

The Maine senator is the first Republican to come out against Menashi, a 40-year-old White House legal aide who is Trump’s choice for a lifetime seat on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 2nd Circuit. Her opposition alone won’t sink Menashi’s nomination, but it’s one less vote he’ll have on the Senate floor.

Menashi has drawn strong opposition from progressive groups over his long record of undermining equality for communities of color, women and LGBTQ people. In his past writings, he has compared race data collection in college admissions to Germany under Adolf Hitler; denounced women’s marches as sexual assault; opposed the “radical abortion rights codified in Roe v. Wade”; and written that it is “ridiculous” to say students chanting the Dartmouth football cheer, “Wah-hoo-wah! Scalp ’em!” are propagating “a racist belief in the inferiority of American Indians.”

Read more: https://www.huffpost.com/entry/susan-collins-steven-menashi-trump-judicial-nominee_n_5db0806ae4b01ca2a8566df2

[sakabatou]

1. Until she doesn't

[RobertDevereaux]

2. Step #1 of the Collins two-step...

[Dennis Donovan]

3. ...as her pearls scatter across the floor.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

4. Until she gets a mean tweet from Trump.

Then she'll fold like a cheap lawn chair, just like she always does.

[BamaRefugee]

5. What's the problem Susie? Not rapey/drunky enough for you?

[Hortensis]

6. Clue that this sell-out phony is worried about the election.

[NNadir]

7. Bill deal. A Senator who, unlike Collins, respects the law...

...would do the same.

She belongs to the "destroy the constitution" party and there's no way left to obscure that fact.

[jpak]

8. Her old Bait and Switch BS - her no vote won't count and he'll be approved

Count

On

It

[PupCamo]

9. that's nice

wonder who let her off her leash in order to do this

[hatrack]

10. Meaning they have the necessary votes already in hand

So Collins gets to show just how spunky and independent she is.

[groundloop]

20. THIS

Now she gets a chance to pretend she's going one step beyond being concerned, and the only fathomable reason she'd stray from the party line is that her vote isn't needed this time.

[YOHABLO]

11. Well maybe she's serious this time. HA ! Sen.Collins bu bye.

[cstanleytech]

12. To little, to late. Its way past time for Collins to pack her bags after her Kavanaugh vote.

[maxrandb]

13. Won't save your sorry ass Susan. History is going to be

so fucking cruel to you.

Go fuck yourself sideways with a First Edition Hard Cover copy of Atlas Shrugged you worthless piece of amphibian shit.

[Hassler]

14. Too late, Susan.

[CentralMass]

15. Her lips are moving again

[Mz Pip]

16. Let's see what Mitt does.

And Sasse.

[turbinetree]

17. Hey Susan can I call you Susan, how many other non-qualified people have you put on the bench since

your traitor and chief came into power.....................you installed a person that should be in f**king jail................sitting on the US Supreme Court............and now, you having a moment of principles between your ears....................and just as a side note you helped install a person that should be removed from the bench because your leader basically said FU Constitution..................your such a hypocrite to principles and outright decency to the rule of law, you have no concept on what the rule of law is................you voted to break it...............................

November 3, 2020 cannot get here fast enough.........................

[yellowcanine]

18. Concern Pearl Clutching Alert!

[SunSeeker]

19. Too little too late. nt

[NurseJackie]

21. She's worthless. A stupid woman who has no moral compass.

[paleotn]

22. Too little, too late, Susan.

Need for freshen up the ole res. You'll need it in 2021.

[Maine-i-acs]

23. Translation: Sellout Susie is reading reelection polls

She needs to appear moderate for a few minutes.
The Senate probably has the votes without her help so she got permission from Moscow Mitch to put on airs.

It probably will not move local polls in Maine, we won't forget Kavanaugh and Sellout Susie's 100 other transgressions against The Way Life Should Be.

But even after she gets sent home, she will have served longer than the two terms she promised voters she would serve, and she still has her second husband's Russian Gas Contract money to soothe her.

[ReformedGOPer]

24. Ah Susan,

You're a day late and a dollar short.

[VarryOn]

25. There's nothing she could ever do to make amends. Nt

[tclambert]

26. Why? Did he sexually assault someone she knows personally?

[Javaman]

27. aka she will oppose it until she doesn't nt

[Karma13612]

28. Wow this guy sounds like a winner 🤬

We all know Suzie’s word is worthless now.

Will be interesting to see how it all shakes out.

[Hotler]

29. Life time seat at 40 yrs. old? NO! nt