The Daily Caller81%
Why Does Susan Collins Oppose Confirming Blanche? One Reason Involves Abortion Pills 67%
By Spencer Lombardo70%
8/5/2026, 11:25:36 AM
BS Summary: This article contains 16 faulty reasoning types, including Confirmation Bias, Framing Effect, and Appeal to Emotion, with Negativity Bias as the most egregious example at 61% saturation with 188 hits. Analysis detected 852 faulty-reasoning hits from 308 analyzed words, generating a BS Score of 53.2% and a BS Rank of 67% (9,455 of 28,460 articles). This article is worse (more manipulative) than 66.80% of the article peer group.
“I have carefully reviewed Todd Blanche’s qualifications to be Attorney General … I will vote against this nomination,” Republican Maine Sen.
Susan Collins said in an X post Tuesday.
Among her reasons for opposing Blanche’s confirmation include him “promis[ing] an anti-abortion organization that he would seek to prohibit the mailing of abortion medication to women nationwide.”
(RELATED: Senate Judiciary Committee Advances Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche’s Nomination)
“During Acting Attorney [General] Blanche’s hearing, a majority of GOP senators on the Judiciary Committee pressed him on abortion drugs, uncomfortable with the continuation of Biden’s illegal mail-order abortion drug regime and the Department of Justice’s opposition in court to pro-life states challenging the scheme,” SBA Pro-Life America stated in a press release Tuesday.
SBA added that Blanche “was right when he said, ‘We very much believe the Biden rules were wrong.’
We thank pro-life senators for questioning Acting AG Blanche, and urge the Acting AG to swiftly settle the case with Louisiana and abortion drug coercion survivor Rosalie Markezich to immediately get abortion drugs out of the mail while the FDA’s safety study continues.”
The Republican-controlled Congress failed to extend its funding freeze for Planned Parenthood on July 4, which was part of the One Big Beautiful Bill Act of 2025, the DCNF previously reported.
Collins also said in the post that she opposes Blanche’s confirmation for approving an order to “shield” President Trump and his family from Internal Revenue Service (IRS) audit, the creation of a roughly $1.8 billion anti-weaponization fund, and because the DOJ under his leadership “attempted to indict” Democratic Arizona Sen.
Mark Kelly and Democratic Michigan Sen.
Elissa Slotkin over their “ill-advised, but constitutionally protected, videos encouraging resistance to unlawful orders.”
Collins faces Democratic nominee Troy Jackson in Maine’s 2026 Senate Election this November.
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