上院議員 Susan Collins is 護衛するd out of the 上院 and into a （ワシントンの）連邦議会議事堂 Police 乗り物 after 劇の 床に打ち倒す speech 明らかにする／漏らすing her support for Brett Kavanaugh

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Sen. Susan Collins left the U.S. 上院 on Friday evening in a （ワシントンの）連邦議会議事堂 Police SUV after 発表するing on the upper 議会 床に打ち倒す that she would 投票（する） to 確認する the 大統領，／社長's 戦闘の準備を整えた 最高裁判所 指名された人.

The 共和国の／共和党の 上院議員 and 民主党員 Sen. Joe Manchin said Friday that they will support Brett Kavanaugh when 国会議員s make his 任命 to the （法廷の）裁判 公式の／役人 this 週末.

The Maine 共和国の／共和党の decided not to cross the aisle and abandon 大統領 Trump's 指名された人 after reviewing a secret 連邦検察局 報告（する）／憶測 on 性の 強襲，強姦 主張s 徴収するd by three women.

Manchin, a West Virginia 民主党員, made the opposite 決定／判定勝ち（する） and defected. The result gives the GOP a historic victory 51-49 victory in the 小競り合い over whether to 促進する the 53-year-old D.C. 回路・連盟 裁判官 to the 最高裁判所.

'I will 投票（する） to 確認する 裁判官 Kavanaugh,' Collins said on the 上院 床に打ち倒す in a 茎・取り除く-winding speech that lasted nearly 45 minutes. 'My 熱烈な hope is that Brett Kavanaugh will work to 少なくなる the 分割s in the 最高裁判所.'?

Sen. Susan Collins left the U.S. 上院 on Friday evening in a （ワシントンの）連邦議会議事堂 Police SUV after 発表するing on the upper 議会 床に打ち倒す that she would 投票（する） to 確認する the 大統領，／社長's 戦闘の準備を整えた 最高裁判所 指名された人

Collins has been 護衛するd around the （ワシントンの）連邦議会議事堂 by police all week but this was the first time she was seen hitching a ride

'I will 投票（する） to 確認する 裁判官 Kavanaugh,' Collins said on the 上院 床に打ち倒す in a 茎・取り除く-winding speech that lasted nearly 45 minutes. 'My 熱烈な hope is that Brett Kavanaugh will work to 少なくなる the 分割s in the 最高裁判所'

The hot-seat 上院議員 spoke for a half-hour before について言及するing the uncorroborated 性の 強襲，強姦 主張s against Kavanaugh, which date 支援する more than three １０年間s

Collins' make-or-break 決定／判定勝ち（する） signaled the end of a bitter 一時期／支部 that saw rhetorical 手渡す-to-手渡す 戦闘 from both 味方するs of the 上院. It only be the start of a 国家の political 対話 on 性の 強襲，強姦, however, that will have far-reaching consequences in 2020.

On Friday afternoon, Collins left the （ワシントンの）連邦議会議事堂 under police guard, still 審理，公聴会 the 詠唱するs from 抗議する人s who had descended on swing-投票（する） 上院議員s as the Kavanaugh saga 強めるd.

'Thank you @SenatorCollins for standing by your 有罪の判決s and doing the 権利 thing to 確認する 裁判官 Kavanaugh,' White House 圧力（をかける） 長官 Sarah Huckabee やすりを削る人／削る機械s tweeted after Collins 発表するd her 決定／判定勝ち（する）.

Collins told reporters later that she had 組み立てる／集結するd a team of 19 lawyers to help her review Kavanaugh's judicial 記録，記録的な／記録する. Asked when she had 完結するd her 決定／判定勝ち（する）, she said: 'I made it last night, after finishing going through all the 連邦検察局 報告（する）／憶測s.'

The hot-seat 上院議員 spoke for a half-hour before について言及するing the uncorroborated 性の 強襲，強姦 主張s against Kavanaugh, which date 支援する more than three １０年間s.

She said they 'illustrate why the presumption of innocence is so important. ... It is when passions are most enflamed that fairness is most in jeopardy.'

She said she believes Kavanaugh accuser Christine Blasey Ford gave 'sincere, painful and 説得力のある' 証言, and believes 'she is a 生存者 of a 性の 強襲，強姦, and that this 外傷／ショック has upended her life.'

Yet 非，不，無 of the four 証言，証人／目撃するs she 指名するd, Collins said, 'could not 確認する any of the events of the evening 集会 where she said the 強襲，強姦 occurred.'

Kavanaugh himself, she 公式文書，認めるd, '否定するd the 主張s under 刑罰，罰則 of 偽証.'

Collins' make-or-break 決定／判定勝ち（する） signaled the end of a bitter 一時期／支部 that saw rhetorical 手渡す-to-手渡す 戦闘 from both 味方するs of the 上院. It only be the start of a 国家の political 対話 on 性の 強襲，強姦, however, that will have far-reaching consequences in 2020

Collins leaves the U.S. 上院 議会s under police watch after 発表するing her 意向 to 投票（する） for the 確定／確認 of Kavanaugh on Friday

On Friday afternoon, Collins left the （ワシントンの）連邦議会議事堂 under police guard, still 審理，公聴会 the 詠唱するs from 抗議する人s who had descended on swing-投票（する） 上院議員s as the Kavanaugh saga 強めるd

Collins argued that the fact of the 事例／患者 'lead me to 結論する that the 主張s failed to 会合，会う the "more likely than not" 基準. I do not think these 告発（する），告訴（する）／料金s can 公正に／かなり 妨げる 裁判官 Kavanaugh from serving on the 法廷，裁判所.'

She took 苦痛s to paint the Kavanaugh 事例／患者 as an outlier in a social movement where women should be believed when they step 今後 to 告発する／非難する men of 性の 不品行／姦通.

'The "MeToo" movement is real. It 事柄s, it is needed and it is long 延滞の,' she said.

Collins also 爆破d an 匿名の／不明の leaker who 最初 put Ford's 主張s in the public domain, 説 the 活動／戦闘 was 'unconscionable.'

Kavanaugh had （疑いを）晴らすd his first procedural 障害物 hours earlier, winning the 投票（する）s of Collins and Jeff Flake, another swing 共和国の／共和党の, and Manchin, the 政治上-危うくするd West Virginia 民主党員 who 直面するs a 堅い, November re-選挙 fight in a Trump 明言する／公表する.

That left 共和国の／共和党のs with a 51-49 advantage, but no 保証（人） it would 持つ／拘留する.?

Moments after Collins' 床に打ち倒す speech, Manchin 除去するd all 疑問 that Kavanaugh will fill the high 法廷，裁判所 seat vacated by the retiring 司法（官） Anthony Kennedy.

'I have 保留（地）／予約s about this 投票（する） given the serious 告訴，告発s against 裁判官 Kavanaugh and the temperament he 陳列する，発揮するd in the 審理，公聴会. And my heart goes out to anyone who has experienced any type of 性の 強襲，強姦 in their life,' the West Virginia 上院議員 said in a 声明.

'However, based on all of the （警察などへの）密告，告訴（状） I have 利用できる to me, 含むing the recently 完全にするd 連邦検察局 報告（する）／憶測, I have 設立する 裁判官 Kavanaugh to be a qualified jurist who will follow the 憲法 and 決定する 事例／患者s based on the 合法的な findings before him.'

抗議する人s shouting 'shame, shame, shame' surrounded him minutes later as he explained his yes 投票（する） on Kavanaugh to cameras.

デモ参加者／実演宣伝者s nearly 溺死するd out the Democratic 上院議員 as he spoke to reporters に引き続いて Collins' 告示 that she would support the 大統領，／社長's 指名された人 to the 最高裁判所 when his 任命 comes up for final 是認.?

デモ参加者／実演宣伝者s nearly 溺死するd out Democratic Sen. Joe Manchin as he spoke to reporters に引き続いて a 劇の 告示 from Sen. Susan Collins that she would support the 大統領，／社長's 指名された人 to the 最高裁判所 when his 任命 comes up for final 是認

抗議する人s shouted 'shame, shame, shame' and surrounded the West Virginia 国会議員

Manchin was surrounded by 抗議する人s and reporters as he on Friday left his office for the day

抗議する人s （人が）群がる the office of Democratic 上院議員 from West Virginia Joe Manchin after a 投票（する） to 前進する the 確定／確認 過程 of 最高裁判所 指名された人 裁判官 Brett Kavanaugh

Manchin said he waited until Collins had finished a 非常に長い 床に打ち倒す speech that ended with a 発覚 that she 投票（する） for Kavanaugh to 発表する his own 投票（する） out of '尊敬（する）・点' for his 共和国の／共和党の 同僚.

'I made my 決定／判定勝ち（する）. And I gave my 推論する／理由s for my 決定／判定勝ち（する）,' he said of a 声明 he sent out すぐに after Collins had finished.?

The 声明 断言するd his previous 投票（する） to 前進する Kavanaugh's 指名／任命, 説 it was 'based on the facts I have before me and what is best for West Virginia.'?

In the 声明 Manchin said that Kavanugh 本人自身で assuaged his 関心s about 可能性のある 事例／患者s before the 法廷，裁判所 that could take away healthcare for West Virginians 衝撃d by pre-存在するing 条件 準備／条項s.?

'That is why I 投票（する）d to 確認する 裁判官 Kavanaugh’s 指名／任命 to serve on the 最高裁判所 because I believe he will 支配する in a manner that is 一貫した with our 憲法,' he said.

Manchin 試みる／企てるd to shed その上の light on his 決定／判定勝ち（する） a few moments later in the hallway outside his office, but デモ参加者／実演宣伝者s didn't want to hear it - and they didn't want him to have the ability to explain his thinking to others.

They shouted incessantly as he spoke to cameras, but the 上院議員 didn't seemed 動揺させるd. He smiled and carried on answering questions.

MAN OF THE HOUR: Reporters follow Manchin 負かす／撃墜する the hallway after he reviewed the 連邦検察局 報告（する）／憶測 in a 安全な・保証する room alone

Manchin was under 圧力 from both 味方するs on Kavanaugh

Reporters also followed Manchin into a 上院 subway car ahead of the Kavanaugh 投票（する）

The 上院議員 said he is 'very much 関心d 基本的に with the 性の 乱用 that people have 耐えるd and very much 関心d that we have to do something as a country.

'But I had to を取り引きする the facts in 前線 of me,' he said.

Without Manchin's 投票（する）, the GOP could have 確認するd Kavanuagh but only if 副大統領 マイク Pence 行為／法令／行動するd as tie-breaker.

The Democratic 上院議員 said he wasn't bothered by the fact that he could have been the deciding 投票（する）. He echoed a 感情 that Collins 表明するd in her 床に打ち倒す speech and said his 投票（する） was based 純粋に on the facts as he saw them.

行動主義者s broke out into 詠唱するs of 'shame on you' as Manchin 主張するd that his yes 投票（する） had nothing to do with Collins'.

'Oh, no, no. No. I think everyone, everyone labored with this. Everybody labored with this 決定／判定勝ち（する）. And we all did our own,' he said.

Manchin spent the morning inside the 安全な・保証する 施設 where 上院議員s were 許すd to review a 選び出す／独身 copy of the 連邦検察局's supplemental background check 調査 into Kavanaugh.?

SURPRISE VOTE: Manchin had not said how he'd 投票（する） when he on Friday morning said yes to 前進するing Kvanaugh's 指名／任命

He 投票（する）d yes on a procedural 動議 to begin 30 hours of 審議 on the final question - but only after 共和国の／共和党の Sen. Jeff Flake 投票（する）d to move ahead と一緒に Collins.?

共和国の／共和党の Sen. Lisa Murkowski had 投票（する）d no, making Manchin the de facto 51st 投票（する）. The 動議 要求するd 51 投票（する）s to pass.?

Manchin told reporters that Murkowski 簡単に （機の）カム to a 'different 結論' than he did about the sex 強襲，強姦 主張s against Kavanaugh and 投票（する）d her 良心.?

The Democratic 上院議員 repeated a GOP affirmation that Christine Blasey Ford, the first woman to 告発する／非難する Kavanaugh 公然と, was likely 強襲，強姦d but not by the D.C. 回路・連盟 法廷，裁判所 裁判官 that 上院議員s are on the precipice of putting on the nation's highest 法廷，裁判所.

'I think something happened to her,' he 主張するd.

抗議する人s told him that Kavanaugh 'is unfit' to sit on the （法廷の）裁判 and 'a liar' who did not tell the truth under 誓い.?

WASN'T ME: Kavanaugh forcefully 否定するd the 性の 強襲，強姦 主張s in 証言 to the 上院 司法の 委員会 last week on Thursday

Arizona 共和国の／共和党の Sen. Jeff Flake, a 盗品故買者-sitter who a week ago 需要・要求するd a 再開するd 連邦検察局 調査（する） into uncorroborated 性の 強襲，強姦 主張s against 大統領 Trump's 指名された人, has also said he would 投票（する） yes 'unless something big changed. I don't see what would.'

It was Collins, however, who appeared to 支配（する）／統制する Kavanaugh's 運命／宿命. In just one 調印する of her 影響（力）, she lunch ate in the 上院 dining room with 上院 大多数 Leader Mitch McConnell and other 共和国の／共和党のs Friday, before 配達するing a speech that had Washington's 血 圧力 頂点（に達する）ing.

A woman stood up in a 訪問者's gallery When Collins rose to speak, 勧めるing: '上院議員 Collins, please 投票（する） no!'

'I am a 投票者 form Maine. You have a 責任／義務?' the woman called out as （ワシントンの）連邦議会議事堂 Police moved to 排除する／（飛行機などから）緊急脱出する her from the 議会. She was soon joined by about 10 other 抗議する人s.

'Show up for Maine women! 投票（する） No!' they shouted before police 運ぶ／漁獲高d them out. The 上院's 統括するing officer then reminded 訪問者s not to 混乱に陥れる／中断させる the 訴訟／進行s.

Murkowski 一方／合間 投票（する）d against Kavanaugh on Friday にもかかわらず calling him 'a good man.' Although the Alaska 共和国の／共和党の could swing 支援する toward the GOP on Saturday, she told reporters: 'It just may be that in my 見解（をとる）, he’s not the 権利 man for the 法廷，裁判所 at this time.'

Manchin too could abandon his プロの／賛成の-Kavanaugh position, and 進歩／革新的な 行動主義者s and his party leaders are already 圧力ing him to do just that in the 概略で 24 hours that remain before the 決定／判定勝ち（する） is final.

The White House wouldn't say whether the 大統領，／社長 had talked to Manchin or Collins on Friday while 認めるing that he and his staff had been engaged in outreach to さまざまな 上院議員s.?

'We feel good about where we are,' White House 圧力（をかける） 長官 Sarah やすりを削る人／削る機械s told reporters outside the White House.