Article snippet: Liberal groups are mounting a major offensive against MORE’s Supreme Court pick, hoping to pressure every Democratic senator to vote against whomever the White House nominates to succeed Justice Anthony Kennedy. With Republicans clinging to a 50-49 voting majority given Sen. MORE’s (R-Ariz.) battle with brain cancer, Democrats also hope to pick off two Republican votes to stall Trump’s nominee. The biggest targets are Sens. MORE (Maine), two Republican women who support abortion rights. But the odds are long. Murkowski and Collins backed Trump’s last pick for the court, Neil Gorsuch, even though he was seen as a likely vote against abortion rights. In addition, a handful of Democratic senators — MORE (Ind.) — also backed Gorsuch and will face enormous pressure to do so again given their reelection races in states easily won by Trump in the last presidential election. All five swing senators met with Trump at the White House Thursday in a sign of the heavy lobbying to come. But progressive groups are hopeful that what they describe as a “multimillion-dollar” campaign on lawmakers across the country will galvanize an activated base and show senators that there would be severe political consequences for siding with Trump. “This will be a 50-state campaign. Our members are fired up, our phones are ringing off the hook, and we are ready to fight this fight,” NARAL Pro-Choice America President Ilyse Hogue said in a Thursday conference call with reporters. NARAL and o... Link to the full article to read more