Susan Collins Breaks With Trump, Will Oppose New White House Judicial Nomination From News Thud: Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine) will break with President Trump over a new judicial nominee and Trump will not be pleased, to say the least. For a few reasons but mainly Steven Menashi is currently a Special Assistant to the President and Associate Counsel to the President. The guy works with Trump and has all the conservative credentials one normally looks for in these situations. From The Hill: “I intend to oppose his nomination,” Collins said Wednesday in a video posted by HuffPost. Her response came to a question by an activist with progressive groups Demand Justice and the Center for Popular Democracy, according to the news outlet. “I’d like to know how you’re going to vote on Menashi,” the activist said. A spokesperson for Collins confirmed in an email to The Hill Wednesday that the senator was planning to vote against Menashi’s nomination to be a judge on the 2nd Circuit… …Sen. John Kennedy (R-La.) has also expressed skepticism toward Menashi, saying that the nominee could be “Oliver Wendell Scalia”  but he couldn’t vote for him until he knew how Menashi thinks about legal matters. “If someone gets mad at that, they need to call somebody who cares, because that is my job and I’m tired of them playing games,” Kennedy said last month. He told The Hill on Wednesday that he still hadn’t made a decision on Menashi. https://newsthud.com/susan-collins-breaks-with-trump-will-oppose-new-white-house-judicial-nomination/