Current Events > Sleepy Dianne Feinstein not up for Supreme Court battle

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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.

Interviews with more than a dozen Democratic senators and aides show widespread concern over whether the California Democrat is capable of leading the aggressive effort Democrats need against whoever President Donald Trump picks to replace the late Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg.

Feinstein sometimes gets confused by reporters questions, or will offer different answers to the same question depending on where or when shes asked. Her appearance is frail. And Feinstein's genteel demeanor, which seems like it belongs to a bygone Senate era, can lead to trouble with an increasingly hard-line Democratic base uninterested in collegiality or bipartisan platitudes.

Just this week, Feinstein infuriated progressives after declaring her opposition to ending the Senates legislative filibuster a top goal of party activists if Democrats win full control of the Congress and White House in November. Some on the left called on her to resign over the comments, although other Democratic moderates have expressed similar views.

And then theres the lingering fallout over Feinsteins role in the hugely controversial Judiciary Committee hearings for Justice Brett Kavanaugh in 2018, an issue that factors deeply into the questions about her suitability for this latest 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 Kavanaughs nomination, and senators in both parties questioned why Feinstein didnt move more quickly to disclose Blasey Fords statement.

https://www.politico.com/amp/news/2020/09/23/dianne-feinstein-supreme-court-battle-420357

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there needs to be an age limit to political office.

Remember when a group of kids confronted her on the Green New Deal and she said "you didn't vote for me" and a bunch of other fuck shit
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Smashingpmkns posted...

Remember when a group of kids confronted her on the Green New Deal and she said "you didn't vote for me" and a bunch of other fuck shit

She tried to shut them down by telling them that the GND had no chance of passing so she had a better proposal. What a c***.

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Poop2 posted...

there needs to be an age limit to political office.

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Poop2 posted...

there needs to be an age limit to political office.

No one past 65 should be allowed to hold office.

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87 is too old to be legislating an entire state/country

My grandma just turned 85 and she can't even remember where she places her glasses.

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Man, the lack of term and age limits is fucking us everywhere you look

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