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Dec 18, 2025

Dem Senate Candidate Wants Radical Changes to Supreme Court

A former Marine and military contractor with several combat tours to Iraq and Afghanistan, who is running as a Democrat to unseat incumbent Maine Sen. Susan Collins (R), is calling for radical left-wing changes to the U.S. Supreme Court. In a campaign video released this week, Graham Platner, a small businessman and oyster farmer, said the court has become a “political action wing” of “conservatism” and should be expanded and packed with leftists.

“We’re going to have to start treating the Supreme Court like the political action wing that it has become of conservatism. It is not functioning as a constitutional body,” Platner claimed to a small group of supporters.

“And it’s very frustrating for me that there are — I think there are Democrats in the Senate that either do not understand or don’t want to understand the power they actually have. And there is — the Senate — if we re — retake the Senate and get the majority — fingers crossed — we need to use every single lever of power that we have to deal with the Supreme Court,” he went on.

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