Jeebus Christ on a Krimpet, Senate Democrats Suck!
Between Chris Coons rushing through Trump’s judicial picks, and Dianne Feinstein holding up Biden’s I guess we get the federal judiciary we deserve.
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.”
The senate, what ya’ gonna do with 100 little kings and queens? I’d love to see the institution abolished and a parliamentary system put in place, sadly I must live in the real world and can only point back at an electorate that struggles to understand, and for that matter to stay awake. Add to that the Republican drive to destroy public education, and you guessed it, it’s the perfect storm of stupidity. And damned if I ain’t tired of paying the price.
Rep. Ro Khanna became the first Democratic congressperson to call for her resignation. So, that’s one down, hundreds to go.
Coons and Carper will join Ro Khanna only after Feinstein has been dead for a week.
The leeches and parasites that live off her would like her to pretend to be a Senator for another TWO YEARS!
https://www.politico.com/news/2023/04/12/dianne-feinstein-condition-senate-return-00091765
https://www.rawstory.com/dianne-feinstein-2659847787/
Breaking news:
She’s asked to be removed from the Judiciary Committee.
It requires a vote fo 60 Senators to remove her from the committee. Not happening.
I don’t think that’s true? She can step down at any time with Schumer’s OK…
Oh, actually you might be on track after all. Axios has more details, and while it might be a simple unanimous consent, you’re right that it’s possible there might be a filibuster-breaking vote to occur…
https://www.axios.com/2023/04/13/dems-substitute-feinstein-judiciary-committee