Susan Collins says she has no regrets over Kavanaugh vote despite Roe reversal

Systemic Error Podcast · Jul 3, 2026 · 4m

Susan Collins Didn’t Misread Kavanaugh. She Helped Install Him.The Power Was Always HersSusan Collins is trying to frame Brett Kavanaugh’s confirmation as a matter of judicial quality, background, and abstract institutional trust. That is the oldest trick in elite politics: take a decision with obvious consequences, strip out the power that made it possible, and replace agency with résumé talk.But the power here was not theoretical. Collins voted to confirm Kavanaugh. That vote helped place a decisive justice on the Court at the exact moment his nomination was shadowed by sexual misconduct…