Seth Meyers on Roe: ‘Republicans would much rather focus on the leak than the substance’

Seth Meyers: ‘Susan Collins called the cops because someone wrote with chalk on the sidewalk outside her house. And the note wasn’t even threatening! It said please!’ Photograph: YouTube

Seth Meyers

Seth Meyers roasted Republicans for distracting the public from the end of Roe v Wade, starting with the Maine senator Susan Collins. The Republican senator, who claims to be pro-choice but voted to confirm the conservative supreme court justices Brett Kavanaugh and Neil Gorsuch, called the police in Maine this week on a protester who chalked a message – “Susie, please, Mainers want WHPA – vote yes, clean up your mess” – outside her house. (WHPA refers to the Women’s Health Protection Act, which would codify abortion rights.)