TIME Magazineのインスタグラム(time) - 1月6日 01時25分

Just off the soaring, tourist-filled rotunda of the U.S. Capitol building, down a chandeliered hallway, up a few floors in what feels like the world’s tiniest elevator, in a narrow, echoing corridor, lies the hideaway of @sensusancollins. The private office, a perk doled out by seniority, is appointed in creams and florals and feels warm but not exactly homey. Most of all, it is secluded—no staff, no uninvited visitors, no constituents. And it was in this hidden space in late September that the Republican from Maine weighed one of the most divisive decisions of her 21-year career in #Congress: whether to vote to confirm Brett Kavanaugh, a conservative judge accused of sexual assault, to the Supreme Court. Collins faced an onslaught of pressure from the left to oppose the nomination. None of it daunted Collins, who has spent decades as a pivotal swing vote in the #Senate. Recalling the episode in November, Collins says she was “baffled” that #activists thought they could threaten her into voting their way. “I would never be intimidated by that,” she says. In the end, Collins cast one of the decisive votes for Kavanaugh, announcing her decision with a speech that shredded any illusions that she was unsure about her choice. Her vigorous defense of Kavanaugh, coming from one of the Senate’s last remaining moderates, showed just how polarized the chamber has become in the #Trump era. And it highlighted how difficult it is to be a centrist when everyone else has retreated to hyperpartisan corners. In this moment in American #politics, Collins can seem like the last of her kind. Read more on TIME.com. Photograph by @jaredsoares for TIME

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