I told her I live out of state but will send money to her Democratic challenger. I reminded her of her harsh statement on Al Franken.

Here are other names who have expressed doubt over this nominee.

(202)224-****

Collins (ME) 2523
Corker (TN) 3344
Flake (AZ) 4521
Murkowski (AK) 6665

bettyellen and BigmanPigman put together a list:
https://www.democraticunderground.com/10112543

before the election, it will be a disaster for them.
Barrett has openly stated she will overturn Roe and Griswold.

morals that does not care about rules?

I think she's already made up her mind on Kavanaugh.

At this point in her life, I'd think her legacy would be more important than any political considerations.

believes Susan Collins on anything. She's Lucy with the football. She pretends to waver and be concerned, and then falls in line.

She can sound to sane and reasonable, then votes with the republicans most of the time. I think this time could be different though.

Kavanaugh's then buddy might not want to perjure himself before the nation by saying the attempted rape didn't happen.

Also Kav wasn't even at that party just as he said.

The repugs don't want to take that chance at all so they insisted on only two people testifying so it'll be a he said/she said, who ya gonna believe stand-off...therefore we win. Case closed.

in front of hostile senators unless congress and DOJ are willing to do the legwork on the alleged incident and both their backgrounds in the context of the incident.

They want this lady to appear reluctantly and alone in front of congress and tens of millions of people yet they won't allow further investigation beforehand so that questions can be based in reality??

This important decision will be based on a charade otherwise. I don't care who does the questioning. They will ask questions that could have been answered with research, but instead the answers will just be unverified claims...the way the gop wants it to be including collins. appearance of process without the most meaningful process steps.

having the attorney ask the questions is a way to shield the gop senators from embarrassing, viral video clips. And we can guess at the line of questioning the attorney will ask.

if they are relevant to this accusation. Record of rulings wrt women accusers, comments, private letters, etc..

If they don't get them, they should use to greatest extent the fact that the gop and wh are hiding information that may inform this dicussion.

this is a state crime and the State of Maryland isn't going to investigate a 35 year old allegation of sexual assault, too much time has passed and witnesses' memories tend to get hazy and unreliable.

the FBI a couple times just computer searches of tax, financial records, state databases, that kind of thing, as part of licensing procedures. My husband's top secret security clearance, though, required in person interviews with neighbors, coworkers, actual investigation of tax records, family background, and frankly I have no idea what else. If any questions arose, they would have been investigated. Far more than this is appropriate for someone being considered for a lifetime appointment to our highest court.

Even a private sector job with federal contracts is subject to an FBI background check, but a state crime is not.

Trump has to order the FBI to look into it, which we all know he won't, ergo, the FBI's hands are tied.

complete their background check on a SCOTUS nominee if they find something was left undone.

the FBI has already closed the background investigation and handed the results to the WH, along with the letter Feinstein gave to them, the FBI has come out and said that unless the WH, IE: Trump, asks for them to investigate this further, they can't take any action.

What are the chances that Trump is going to do that?

about other ways of getting information, rather than actual investigation, anyway. Time is limited, and no doubt Repubs would have been racing to close down all intragovernmental possibilities as fast as possible. Certainly the senate judicial committee isn't one.

agent, to look into this allegation.
That's one way around Donny's refusal to allow the FBI to formally follow up on this allegation.

And there's the press.

then I'm sure someone in the Democrat Party has already done it.

Not to sure of the press, but we'll see.

The NYT and AP did severely smash journalistic standards to help defeat Democrats in 2016, and outstandingly Hillary, so I'm not too sure of them on this either. But this is big. I'm assuming the press are swarming.

and I hope you're right.

A Supreme Court nominee who needs a lawyer......

I don't trust her.

Collins is Lucy pulling the football away from Charlie Brown. She does it every time, and Charlie Brown is always surprised. The only one who should trust Collins is McConnell.

For Collins to vote against confirmation (assuming Kavanawful doesn't pull out beforehand), a couple of other Republicans would have to lead the way (e.g. Flake and one other, though I hold out little hope of Corker or Murkowski, and don't know who else there is who is not on McTurtle's leash). Collins will NEVER lead on this. She is a follower, never a leader. Crucially, endangered red state Democrats like Heitkamp and Donnelly will vote to confirm if they see a solid Republican faction making it a lock. Heitkamp and Donnelly will vote no IF they see that it will lock in that result.

So no Republican politician has to.

They interviewed two of them from Faux News. One said she dated him briefly I think in college and was still friends with him and he walks on water. The other one seemed less conservative and to have some stories to tell. She dated him in high school and said they drank beer together, then she quickly said they were 18 so it was legal. She said she knew who Christine Ford was back then. So she could maybe testify that he knew Ford as well since pro-Kavs are claiming he may never have met Ford. This ex ought to be deposed.

"As of this writing, the campaign has raised a stunning $1,014,940.00 with every dollar earmarked for Collins’ eventual Democratic opponent if Collins fails, in the words of the campaign, “to stand up for the people of Maine and for Americans across the country” by voting against Kavanaugh’s confirmation."

https://www.thedailybeast.com/group-raises-nearly-dollar1m-for-susan-collins-nonexistent-opponent-if-she-votes-to-confirm-brett-kavanaugh