I believe we may have just witnessed a new high water mark of hypocrisy in Maine Republican politics. Susan Collins decries Donald Trump’s trial and conviction because, she asserts, charges were brought because of political convictions rather than any “specified criminal conduct.”

That specified criminal conduct, obviously, was the very well specified 34 counts on which a grand jury saw cause to indict him, and a jury of his peers saw fit to convict him.

Susan Collins sees herself fit to undermine the basics of the American judicial system. She goes on to say “the political underpinnings of this case further blur the lines between the judicial system and the electoral system.”

This, incredibly, comes from the woman who took herself down to Northeast Harbor to accept the campaign largesse of Leonard Leo, the Federalist Society, et al, then dutifully cast the deciding vote for a Supreme Court justice who lied, sneered and sniveled his way through his confirmation.

Few have better served the cause of blurring the lines between electoral and judicial systems, while doing her part to give us the most corrupt Supreme Court in recent history.

Ann Morrill
South Portland