Can't quite tell if it's Dianne or Uncle Festerman doing the talking here. </sarc>
Posted on 04/11/2023 6:19:33 PM PDT by Enterprise
At what is clearly a critical time for confirming good federal judges, Sen. Dianne Feinstein’s (D-Calif.) increasingly prolonged absence from the Senate is apparently holding up the process for a number of President Joe Biden’s judicial picks this year.
Feinstein, who was hospitalized in early March for shingles and has remained in her San Francisco home since March 7, has missed 60 votes of the 82 taken in the Senate in 2023, per the San Francisco Chronicle. And as the Senate, which has been on recess since March 31, prepares to return on April 17, Judiciary Committee Chair Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) said on Monday that Feinstein’s absence from the Senate—and the Judiciary Committee specifically—will impede Democrats’ ability to confirm judicial nominees.
“I can’t consider nominees in these circumstances, because a tie vote is a losing vote in committee,” Durbin told CNN. He continued, “We still have some nominees left on the calendar that we can work on. … But we have more in the wings that we would like to process through the committee.”
Feinstein’s team has been tight-lipped about when, if at all, she’ll return to D.C. Her spokesperson told the Chronicle this week that the 89-year-old “continues to work from home in San Francisco as she recuperates.” Earlier this year, Feinstein announced she won’t seek reelection in 2024 as a handful of Democratic House members vie for her seat. But she intends to serve out the rest of her term, which is set to end in January 2025. That’s close to two years from now, and it’s troubling to consider all the key votes and confirmation processes that could be stalled by Feinstein’s absence—either now or in the future, if she becomes ill again—given Democrats’ razor-thin 51-49 majority.
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I have no problems with this.
The senate is missing it’s 3 cadavers.
Ain’t that a shame.
Also known as "Lefty bot stooge-judges"...
I’m surprised they just don’t remove her absent can from the committee and install another socialist rubber stamp.
Yep, works for me.
Yes! Great job, just pile up the positions that need confirmation until Trump becomes President so he can fill them up
I’m failing to see a downside on this one.
Good news... No judicial appointments...
Two down, another 49 to go. So what is the problem? She has outlived her “usefulness” as a useful idiot, time to pack it in clown.
Can't quite tell if it's Dianne or Uncle Festerman doing the talking here. </sarc>
She’s dead Jim.
Based on the Senator Kennedy intellectual meat grinder of these idiot candidates, I see no downside in doing nothing. DiFiChiSpy can take her sweet time.
Dianne had to be almost tricked by her Aide into giving a statement of retiring. She didn’t seem to remember saying she would be retiring, even though she allegedly make the comment the day before a reporter asked her about it.
“No, no. I haven’t said anything about retiring.”
Aide interrupts Dianne: “Yes, you made the statement yesterday.”
Dianne: “Did I?”
” apparently holding up the process for a number of President Joe Biden’s judicial picks this year.”
Eh, that’s a shame.
May wanna check the SF Chronicle obituary section.
Going to piss off the NeverTrumpers (Ukraine War cheerleaders).
Does DaNang Dick count? He always looks like one.
Did someone knowck over that portrait of her in the attic?
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