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Anonymous wrote:Feinstein is 89 years old and by all accounts mentally addled and dependent on her staff to function. She was power-hungry and egotistical to run for another term, California democrats were stupid not to oppose her more strongly and we Americans are all paying the price for her absence as Bidnn misses the opportunity to confirm judges who aren't RWNJs.

It should be easy to get normal, moderate judges confirmed. Qualified people who are not LWNJ would get votes from Republicans.
But, if the goal is to push through LWNJ judges...... sorry.

BS. Even Michelle Childs who multiple Republicans were saying was qualified for SCOTUS only got 65 total votes. Polarization is out of control.
https://www.acslaw.org/judicial-nominations/on-the-bench/

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Anonymous wrote:Feinstein is 89 years old and by all accounts mentally addled and dependent on her staff to function. She was power-hungry and egotistical to run for another term, California democrats were stupid not to oppose her more strongly and we Americans are all paying the price for her absence as Bidnn misses the opportunity to confirm judges who aren't RWNJs.

It should be easy to get normal, moderate judges confirmed. Qualified people who are not LWNJ would get votes from Republicans.
But, if the goal is to push through LWNJ judges...... sorry.

Merrick Garland says hello!

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Anonymous wrote:Not only will whoever replaces Feinstein on the Judiciary Committee (Ben Cardin) need 60 votes, but her replacement in the Senate IF SHE ACTUALLY RESIGNS will need 60 votes.

That is total BS. WTF.

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Anonymous wrote:Feinstein is 89 years old and by all accounts mentally addled and dependent on her staff to function. She was power-hungry and egotistical to run for another term, California democrats were stupid not to oppose her more strongly and we Americans are all paying the price for her absence as Bidnn misses the opportunity to confirm judges who aren't RWNJs.

It should be easy to get normal, moderate judges confirmed. Qualified people who are not LWNJ would get votes from Republicans.
But, if the goal is to push through LWNJ judges...... sorry.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Feinstein is 89 years old and by all accounts mentally addled and dependent on her staff to function. She was power-hungry and egotistical to run for another term, California democrats were stupid not to oppose her more strongly and we Americans are all paying the price for her absence as Bidnn misses the opportunity to confirm judges who aren't RWNJs.

It should be easy to get normal, moderate judges confirmed. Qualified people who are not LWNJ would get votes from Republicans.
But, if the goal is to push through LWNJ judges...... sorry.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Feinstein is 89 years old and by all accounts mentally addled and dependent on her staff to function. She was power-hungry and egotistical to run for another term, California democrats were stupid not to oppose her more strongly and we Americans are all paying the price for her absence as Bidnn misses the opportunity to confirm judges who aren't RWNJs.

It should be easy to get normal, moderate judges confirmed. Qualified people who are not LWNJ would get votes from Republicans.
But, if the goal is to push through LWNJ judges...... sorry.

Anonymous wrote:Feinstein is 89 years old and by all accounts mentally addled and dependent on her staff to function. She was power-hungry and egotistical to run for another term, California democrats were stupid not to oppose her more strongly and we Americans are all paying the price for her absence as Bidnn misses the opportunity to confirm judges who aren't RWNJs.

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Anonymous wrote:Not only will whoever replaces Feinstein on the Judiciary Committee (Ben Cardin) need 60 votes, but her replacement in the Senate IF SHE ACTUALLY RESIGNS will need 60 votes.

That is total BS. WTF.

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You really can not say this. There was a cult around her who shielded her. We have no idea if she was mentally fit. You have to look at a person’s full career to evaluate it’s worth. In reality RGB decision to stay on eases all her work and locked in a republicans radical majority on the bench for 30-40 years. RGB was a failure. Feinstein will be looked at the same way.

Yes, exactly. I, a liberal, view RGB as a massive, generationally spanning screwup because she couldn't step out of the way when she had the chance. I'm bitter about it and always will be.

The problem is that the window to replace RBG in order to get someone similar in her seat was in reality shorter than Obama’s 8 years in office. Senate republicans don’t play fair. And I think most of us could understand why, at 75, she wasn’t ready to retire yet. She should have, that’s pretty obvious now, but Obama also should have been able to put Garland forward.

Also, the question is not really whether she was mentally fit until the end (because yeah, we don’t know that) but whether she was capable during the Obama years. I absolutely think she would have retired if HRC had won the election.

Anonymous wrote:Not only will whoever replaces Feinstein on the Judiciary Committee (Ben Cardin) need 60 votes, but her replacement in the Senate IF SHE ACTUALLY RESIGNS will need 60 votes.

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You really can not say this. There was a cult around her who shielded her. We have no idea if she was mentally fit. You have to look at a person’s full career to evaluate it’s worth. In reality RGB decision to stay on eases all her work and locked in a republicans radical majority on the bench for 30-40 years. RGB was a failure. Feinstein will be looked at the same way.

Yes, exactly. I, a liberal, view RGB as a massive, generationally spanning screwup because she couldn't step out of the way when she had the chance. I'm bitter about it and always will be.

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You really can not say this. There was a cult around her who shielded her. We have no idea if she was mentally fit. You have to look at a person’s full career to evaluate it’s worth. In reality RGB decision to stay on eases all her work and locked in a republicans radical majority on the bench for 30-40 years. RGB was a failure. Feinstein will be looked at the same way.

Anonymous wrote:Not only will whoever replaces Feinstein on the Judiciary Committee (Ben Cardin) need 60 votes, but her replacement in the Senate IF SHE ACTUALLY RESIGNS will need 60 votes.

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Anonymous wrote:Feinstein is reminding me of RBG at the end. They both thought that they were more important than their ideals and hung on long enough to gravely damage what they believed in. If Feinstein does't step down before 2024, and Biden loses then she's helped cement a conservative judiciary just as much as RBG did by not resigning while Obama had the senate.

Disagree. You are basing this on your political beliefs. And, in that, you are correct.

But, RBG did her job and was alert.

When would you have had her resign? Obama's last nominee to the Supreme Court did not get put forward. Would you have had her resign in his first term?

Feinstein should not have run for the Senate this last time. Her staff has been running the show more than most staffs for a very long time.

I would have had RBG resign because she was already past 75 when Obama was inaugurated and she was the justice furtherest to the left. If she wanted her replacement to embody her views, she needed to step down under a democratic president who had a democratic senate. She held on too long and ended up being replaced by a 48 year old woman who could spend the next 30 years undoing her legacy

DP and I get it, I just don’t think it was as clear cut as the situation with Feinstein right now. Supreme Court is a lifetime appointment (although it probably shouldn’t be), RBG was mentally fit until the end, and there’s no guarantee that Obama could have gotten a nominee through a republican senate during his second term. Plus, most of the pundits were picking Clinton to win. In hindsight yeah, she should have stepped down but I don’t think it was as clear at the time, and she still almost made it through the trump years.

Does Feinstein even know what is going on or is her staff pulling all the strings (and not wanting to be out of their jobs)? This is partly on Schumer too because he never should have reappointed her to the judiciary committee.