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Feinstein's return to the Senate recalls its past heroics and persistent problems (www.npr.org)

submitted 1 year ago by Exaggeration207 to c/politics

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The senator's office has announced that she will not seek reelection in 2024. Some Democrats outside the Senate have publicly called on her to resign now so that California's Democratic governor can appoint a successor and the Judiciary Committee can have a new member.

But Feinstein has refused to step down or even to discuss it, at least so far. That means that for the remainder of the 118th Congress, her ability to attend and vote will be a matter of intense concern for her party.

It also raises questions about the institution's ability to deal with its internal issues of absence due to aging or disability.

Far from new, these issues have been part of the Senate's peculiar sense of itself and the prerogatives of its members throughout the institution's history.

South Carolina's legendary Strom Thurmond served in the Senate until shortly after his 100th birthday, performing his duties as the Senate president pro tempore. Also holding that position to the end was Robert C. Byrd of West Virginia, who died in 2010 at age 92 after 51 years in the Senate (still the record).

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[–] misguidedfunk 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The persistent problem is the fact she’s clearly not able to fulfil her duties. She should resign. It’s not like her seat is in danger.

[–] Exaggeration207 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Her seat is not in danger, but there's infighting over who will replace her. If Feinstein resigns, California's governor gets to appoint her replacement, and Gavin Newsom is likely to appoint a black woman if given the opportunity. Rumor has it that Nancy Pelosi wants Adam Schiff to replace Feinstein though, so she is pushing for the 90 year old Senator to finish her term.

Feinstein's caretaker also happens to be Pelosi's daughter. That's not a conflict of interest at all.

[–] variaatio@sopuli.xyz 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Yeah. Hearing about to whole feinstein thing, that is pretty disqusting levels of political machining. Since anymore it isn't even about Feinstein. Since as i understand it, she is way too out of it to even be considered for whether she retires herself or not. She is not of sound enough mind and body. Looking at couple previous interviews, she was way out of it. Like for example not remembering she had been absent for months. Insisting she had been voting all the time and so on. Which could be her lying, but more likely literally she has dementia son bad, that last thing she remembers clearly enough is "I was at senate voting, like I have been for decades" and missing the whole "you have been on deaths door for couple months and absent from Congress". Her short term memory is shot and so on.

What she can blamed for is for not retiring way before this already, when her health started to go down in the first place. Then she was of sound mind, could have seen what was coming and retired in peace.

[–] Scrumpletin@lemmy.fmhy.ml 2 points 1 year ago

Logan's Run makes more sense every day.

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