ABORTION/GOP/NOMINATIONS/SUPREME COURT/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Sen. Susan Collins of Maine, a key GOP vote, said Wednesday [9-12-18] that she is still reviewing Judge Brett Kavanaugh’s record and plans to speak with him later in the week…Collins is one of the few Republican lawmakers who say they support abortion rights, and she has yet to announce how she intends to vote on Kavanaugh’s nomination for the Supreme Court. She said last month that Kavanaugh told her he believes the landmark abortion case Roe v. Wade is ‘settled law.’ Activists against Kavanaugh’s nomination have warned he could undo Roe, and a crowdfunding campaign has emerged that is tying its efforts to Collins’ vote on Kavanaugh. Her spokeswoman Annie Clark labeled the effort “basically a bribe’…Kavanaugh appeared before the Senate Judiciary Committee last week for his contentious confirmation hearings, and committee Democrats sent reams of questions to him this week ahead of the panel’s expected vote. A CNN poll released Tuesday [9-11-18] showed people split on Kavanaugh’s confirmation, largely unchanged from before his hearings.”
–Eli Watkins and Ted Barrett, “Susan Collins still won’t say how she’ll vote on Kavanaugh, will talk to him again,” CNN Politics, CNN.com, September 12, 2018 7:25 pm