U.S. Sen. Bill Cassidy made one decision earlier this year that will follow him the rest of his days, in public office and out.

Now, he’s faced with another one — or, more accurately, a variation on the same dilemma: What to do about Robert F. Kennedy Jr.?

We all know where Cassidy, a respected Baton Rouge physician and longtime advocate for lifesaving vaccines, came down when he had to vote on President Donald Trump’s nomination of the notorious vaccine conspiracy theorist to head the Department of Health and Human Services.

He agonized but ultimately went along, and justified his vote by saying that Kennedy had agreed to consult him regularly, to follow mainstream science and not to sow public distrust in vaccine safety.

If there was ever a question of whether the secretary would

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