Four years ago today, the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe vs. Wade, the 1973 ruling that established a national right to abortion. In the majority of that decision was Justice Brett Kavanaugh, who Republican U.S. Sen. Susan Collins of Maine had voted to confirm after he had told her the landmark decision was “settled law.”
Collins’ challenger for her Senate seat, Graham Platner, and other Democrats are hoping to make her vote for Kavanaugh a sticking point during her first reelection campaign since the overturn of the constitutional right to abortion. Her opponents are hammering that theme Wednesday, with the Maine
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