Without Feinstein, Democrats lack a majority on the Senate Judiciary Committee and are unable to move President Joe Biden’s judicial nominees forward ― eliminating one of the few ways to deliver liberal victories in a divided Congress. The president has been very clear about that.”This is the logical end point of the Democrats’ ongoing gerontocracy problem: an aged president unable to intervene as an even older senator hamstrings his agenda. There are four judicial nominees who have received hearings in the Judiciary Committee but not yet votes due to Republican opposition. “It’s the temporary substitution which is the unprecedented ask,” Sen. John Cornyn (R-Texas), a GOP member of the Judiciary Committee, told HuffPost. “I don’t know what political agendas are at work that are going after Sen. Feinstein in that way,” Pelosi told reporters on Capitol Hill.

Source: Huffington Post April 21, 2023 07:43 UTC