As the Senate prepares for yet another brutal Supreme Court nomination fight, one particularly sensitive issue is creating apprehension among Democrats: what to do with 87-year-old Sen. Dianne Feinstein, the ranking member of the Judiciary Committee.
In a phone interview, Feinstein pushed back hard against suggestions she could no longer effectively serve as ranking member of the Judiciary panel or is incapable of handling the upcoming nomination fight. Feinstein waited for several weeks before disclosing allegations by Christine Blasey Ford that Kavanaugh had sexually assaulted her when they were teenagers. The bombshell accusations nearly sank Kavanaugh’s nomination, and senators in both parties questioned why Feinstein didn’t move more quickly to disclose Blasey Ford’s statement.
Feinstein has already stumbled once in tangling with Amy Coney Barrett, who is widely seen as the frontunner to be Trump's Supreme Court nominee. At a 2017 hearing for an appeals court seat, Feinstein told Barrett that “the dogma lives loudly within you” — a remark that was instantly seized upon as anti-Catholic bias by Republicans.To Feinstein, her work on the panel is comparable to what she’s seen from other Democratic ranking members across the Senate.
Feinstein — the first woman to serve as ranking member on Judiciary — has built a long record of legislative success since becoming a senator. She authored the 1994 assault weapons ban, pushed to increase automobile fuel-efficiency standards, and has been a leader on environmental and civil rights issues. Feinstein also led a long probe into the CIA's post-9/11 interrogation and detention programs that led to the historic 2014 torture report.
Then it's time to retire or resign. I'm sure she's not the only one too old or too frail to perform their jobs (hint: Nadler). There's no shame here.
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she needs to go because she has terrible ancient ideas. this goes for all the octogenarians who run this stupid ass country
I know we've got global warming and all but surely there is a convenient ice floe someplace
Nominate Manti Teos girlfriend, nobody would ever notice
Can we place her on an ice floe and push it out to sea?
kick her to her retirement?
This.
Pray for an... invention by god
she could retire if she doesn’t feel up to doing her job anymore, $90M net worth
Make her fucking retire in disgrace.
Plenty of other has-beens in that place not just her
Should have resigned after she told those climate change activist kids to fuck off
they should send her to go live on a big farm upstate, with plenty of room to play and run around
Should be a requirement that any over the age of 70 working for the Government should be required to retire.
Haha, maybe she’ll snooze during the hearing. That will snub you all
Don't underestimate Feinstein.
You would think Senate Democrats could have had a private conversation with her before this hit piece. Senator Feinstein has had a long career and deserves better than this.
She should retire
She's no more insane or senile than any other Marxist of the new Democrat party!
Selfish old twat never should have run for re-election in 2018. She will be 90 years old when she runs again. Just make sure her Depends are working when the camera is on.
SenFeinstein Feinstein has served her constituents valiantly for many years. However, i'is time for SenSchumer to replace her in this position. She, like others, is still stuck in a past mindset that no longer exists. She lacks the instinct to be effective in this era.
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