WASHINGTON — A Democratic senator held the Senate floor through the night and was still going Wednesday in an attention-grabbing talk-a-thon highlighting his party’s opposition to President Donald Trump’s Supreme Court nominee, Neil Gorsuch. But Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell claimed the votes necessary to change Senate rules and thwart the Democratic filibuster in a […]
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Neil Gorsuch's convenient untruth
WASHINGTON — With a shrewdly calculated innocence, Judge Neil Gorsuch told a big fat lie at his confirmation hearing on Tuesday. Because it was a lie everyone expected, nobody called it that. “There’s no such thing as a Republican judge or a Democratic judge,” Gorsuch said. Gorsuch, the amiable veteran of many Republican campaigns, is […]
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Support Maine's Reproductive Privacy Act
What will be the impact on access to abortion in Maine be if Neil Gorsuch is confirmed by the U.S. Senate to replace the late Antonin Scalia on the U.S. Supreme Court? The answer is that there will likely be very little change at all. Gorsuch, a strict conservative from the Tenth Circuit Court, will […]