Posted on 11/15/2017 12:41:12 PM PST by Enlightened1
Sen. Susan Collins (R-ME) said Wednesday that the Senate would have “no choice but to seat” Judge Roy Moore if he wins the Alabama Senate race in December.
According to the law, “We would have no choice but to seat him,” she said, speaking to reporters on Capitol Hill.
Her remarks come amid threats from Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-KY) and other establishment Republican senators that they will push Moore out even if he wins on December 12 over Democrat Doug Jones.
Republican senators who opposed Moore are calling for him to step aside, after the Washington Post published an interview with a woman who said she met him in 1977 when she was 14 and he was 32, alleging that the second time she went out with Moore, he initiated a sexual encounter.
On Monday, another woman said during a press conference arranged by celebrity attorney Gloria Allred that when she was 16, Moore groped her in his car and tried to force her head towards his crotch.
Moore has denied both allegations, which he said were politically motivated attacks.
“I had nothing to do with this, this is a completely manufactured story meant to defrock this campaign,” Moore told Fox News host Sean Hannity. “They are losing, they are 11 points behind, they don’t like my acknowledgment that there is a God.”
“These allegations are completely false and misleading,” he added.
Republican senators are also trying to get President Trump to pressure Moore to step aside, but there is no word on whether he will weigh in.
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The undocumented Democrats in R jerseys will just have to suck it up.
Well knock me over with a feather! We are certainly living in bizarre times.
I’d like to know why McCain and McConnell are saying the Judge shouldn’t be a Senator, when the same type of evidence didn’t compell them to vote “Nay” for Clarence Thomas’ confirmation....
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My reaction exactly.
Even when a Klansman ‘former’ Democrat ran for the Louisiana Senate seat in the 1990s as a Republican, I don’t recall immediate plans to kck him out with an ethics charge.
Then again I don’t recall ethics charges or unfit to serve office complaints about Klan recruiter Robert Sheets Byrd.
On Drudge now: POLL: DEM LEADING +12...
Why? Check their closets! Skeletons are every damn hanger- guaranteed!
They must seat Moore, but they could then turn right around and censure him.
Don’t believe this crap as it’s a ploy to keep the good people of Alabama away from the polls come Dec-12.
Thanks Enlightened1. They'll have a choice, but none of them wants to be slaughtered live on the steps of their gold-plated office buildings in DC for voting to expel.
There’s a longstanding rumor that McConnell was kicked out of the Army for sodomy in the ‘60s but, with the help of a Senator he interned for, had his records changed to say he was discharged for medical reasons.
Yep and we were told by the same poll people that Hillary had a 98% chance of winning the day before the election.
The polls are simply there to try to break the Will of the Roy Moore voters. It is there to discourage Alabama and vote for the radical Leftist the D.C. Establishment wants to fill Jeff Sessions.
That way they will not have opposition when they attempt to remove President Trump.
I think it’s called a hissy fit. McConnell and McCain failed to get their guy past the primary. Their only recourse is a hissy fit.
Republicans can WIN or they can engage in moral preening that the Democrats expect them to do, which is why liberals regularly throw insults and smears against conservatives ... and the charges against Moore are probably just that.
McConnell will be the one looking for a seat
A D.A. isn’t famous three months after taking office, and that’s what the accuser called him ... though he was an assistant D.A.
Hello, how goes it on the anti-Moore jihad front?
Whoopie. Moore's still serving. He'll still vote. He'll sit on whatever obscure committee McConnell appoints him to, assuming he appoints him to any.
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