RapidcreekDianne Feinstein dies at 90
Imagine if she had mentored and sponsored a younger replacement in 2000 and then retired in 2010. Where would we be?
Now that Skeletor has died with no one obvious to replace her, the Judiciary Committee will probably grind to a halt when it comes to confirming judges.
She was a public servant that worked for a long time on your behalf.
California’s governor will name a replacement for the remainder of her term.
Democrats no longer have a clear majority in the Senate. This has all sorts of complications. I believe it will still take 60 votes to replace her in Judiciary which Republicans won’t give them. Probably the main reason she stuck around to begin with. Biden has to be careful with his nominees if he can get through any at all. Gawd help us if a SCOTUS member dies. The call for Menendez to step down will quiet a bit.
She was a public servant that worked for a long time on your behalf.
She worked a long time and was obviously better than the GOP, but staying on for so long was at best a lack of vision and at worse an egotistical decision that will bite us in the ass. All these geriatric ass politicians who don’t mentor, grow the bench with the next generation, and retire when it is time to are leading us to the situation. This is going to end up being RBG all over again.
She was a piece of shit freedom hater, one of the worst Senators ever. Good riddance to that old bag.
I honestly don’t know a lot about her so I don’t know what you’re referring to. I assume gun rights?
That plus carte blanche approval of all forms of warrantless mass surveillance, violations of our 4th Amendment rights, being a pro-corporate oligarchy puppet etc
I mean this isn’t wrong. She was one of the votes against the proposal of members of congress being banned from owning stocks.
No wonder, she consistently outperformed the best traders on wall street. I wonder how she managed that?
RBG all over again
This is peanuts compared to RBG. Feinstein refusing to retire will lead to some inconvenience in the senate and the judiciary committee. RBG refusing to retire fucked the Supreme Court for decades to come.
Blame the Senate Committe Seniority system.
Seniority in the United States Senate is based on the length of time a senator serves on a committee. The majority party member with the most seniority on a committee usually serves as the chair.
That is the only reason to keep sending these people back as old as they are. You send someone new, they have zero power.
No. The second-most senior one from the same party would become the most senior and take over. There’s no good reason for her staying on 15+ years too long.
That would be from a different state and then that state would lose the power of having a senior committee member.
There is a reason Senator Robert Byrd was the longest-serving U.S. Senator. Serving three different tenures as chairman of the United States Senate Committee on Appropriations enabled Byrd to steer a great deal of federal money toward projects in West Virginia.
We’re talking about California here. If any state isn’t starved of power and dependant on federal money, it’s California.
Feinstein was on the following committees. You don’t think she pushed California’s interests in every one.
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Committee on Appropriation
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Subcommittee on Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related Agencies
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Subcommittee on Commerce, Justice, Science, and Related Agencies
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Subcommittee on Defense
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Subcommittee on Energy and Water Development (Chairman)
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Subcommittee on Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies
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Subcommittee on Transportation, Housing and Urban Development, and Related Agencies
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Committee on Rules and Administration
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Committee on the Judiciary
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Subcommittee on Criminal Justice and Counterterrorism
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Subcommittee on Federal Courts, Oversight, Agency Action, and Federal Rights
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Subcommittee on Human Rights and the Law
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Subcommittee on the Constitution (Chairman)
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Select Committee on Intelligence
Thats WAY too many committees for any one politician, let alone one clearly circling the drain!
To answer your question though, no she wasn’t. She was literally unable to do the job and they’d known for years.