Liberal group pressures Collins, Murkowski to defend abortion, reject Trump’s Supreme Court pick

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A liberal judicial advocacy group is running ads that call on Republican Sens. Lisa Murkowski of Alaska and Susan Collins of Maine to oppose President Trump’s nominee to the Supreme Court.

The ads from Demand Justice, which is working to tank Trump’s pick to succeed retiring Justice Anthony Kennedy, focus on the president’s prior comments about wanting to name justices to the Supreme Court who will overturn Roe v. Wade, the landmark 1973 case that established a woman’s right to an abortion.

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