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FoxNewsSucks

(10,435 posts)
Thu Jan 27, 2022, 10:08 PM Jan 2022

Oh my, the poor dear is CONCERNED!

https://www.mainepublic.org/politics/2022-01-26/collins-says-the-senate-shouldnt-rush-the-process-to-replace-justice-breyer


Maine Republican Sen. Susan Collins says there is no need to rush the vetting process for a potential successor to retiring Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer as the Senate gears up for another likely confirmation fight.

During the process to fill the last two Supreme Court vacancies, Collins was often in the national spotlight as then-President Trump stacked the high court with conservative justices. Collins cast a pivotal vote to confirm Justice Brett Kavanaugh despite an intense pressure campaign from the nominee's critics. But she was the only Republican to vote against Justice Amy Coney Barret in late-2020, not on grounds involving her qualifications but because Collins said she opposed filling the seat weeks before a presidential election.

During an event in Augusta on Wednesday, Collins said Democrats shouldn't try to hurry Breyer's potential replacement through the process either. The Democratic caucus currently holds 50 seats in the Senate, with Vice President Kamala Harris casting the tie-breaking vote.

"I felt that the timetable for the last nominee was too compressed,” Collins told reporters after an event highlighting planned pedestrian improvements to a busy stretch of road in Augusta. “This time there is no need for any rush. We can take our time, have hearings, go through the process, which is a very important one. It is a lifetime appointment, after all."


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But putting a lying drunk likely-rapist on the SCROTUS for life is OK.
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Oh my, the poor dear is CONCERNED! (Original Post) FoxNewsSucks Jan 2022 OP
Tiny violins for her concern. PCIntern Jan 2022 #1
Teeny tiny violins Hekate Jan 2022 #9
She just plan sucks. And so do the voters that elected her. dem4decades Jan 2022 #2
And keep on electing her. Deuxcents Jan 2022 #3
I am from Maine. Suzzzzie Collins is a Neo-Fascist who smiles a lot.... I never voted for her. magicarpet Jan 2022 #4
Come up with a schedule. Offer them time. They refuse. Move ahead anyway. onecaliberal Jan 2022 #5
Her pearl clutching is tiresome. TomSlick Jan 2022 #6
Thanks for the advice, now fuck off. jalan48 Jan 2022 #7
To whom it may concern: Blue Owl Jan 2022 #8
Her Concern, is like a bad case of hemorrhoids that won't go away RANDYWILDMAN Jan 2022 #10

magicarpet

(14,202 posts)
4. I am from Maine. Suzzzzie Collins is a Neo-Fascist who smiles a lot.... I never voted for her.
Thu Jan 27, 2022, 10:48 PM
Jan 2022

The rural areas of upstate Maine keep voting her back in. Trump country up there too. These folks kept Trump's bosom buddy Paul LePage as the Maine governor for two excruciating terms too,... then he was term limited,.... thank god.

onecaliberal

(32,976 posts)
5. Come up with a schedule. Offer them time. They refuse. Move ahead anyway.
Thu Jan 27, 2022, 11:03 PM
Jan 2022

We’d better not screw this. 29 days is all it took for Covid Barrett.

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