Until they are appointed, no guarantee that they will be appointed in the future. There are time limits & shit happens. So it is a risk.
That is what folks are worried about.
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Happened (without the gurneys, I think) in the House vote for Qevin’s speakership, such as it is. Critters halfway across the country that day having a medical procedure done needing to be flown back in for votes that evening.
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Not much, it’s political theater that won’t result in anything beyond some moral victory huffing and puffing. It is not worth demanding a senator step down forever for.
Though I am interested in seeing the legal shitfight resulting from a supreme court justice refusing to comply with a congressional subpoena. But that shitfight is going to result in a supreme court shadow docket stall past the end of the senate’s term, so I don’t really care whether the shitfight starts this month or a month or two later.
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Yes, if they so choose. The D-R margin is 1, and a 50-50 vote is considered a denial of confirmation. On KBJ, perhaps the power sharing agreement in the then 50-50 senate treated committee tie votes differently.
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I believe so, yes, unless McTurtle permits them to vote for someone he wants. When a united Dem majority can advance anyone, it is safe for some repubs to concur from time to time. But when that is required, no reason for them to do anything but stall.
ETA: Tie! @occamscoin
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I’ve read that those Galapagos tortoises can live to be 200 years old.
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The time limit is 20 months, the end of the senate’s term.
That is what folks are worried about.
The campaign co-chair for the person most likely to be appointed DiFi’s replacement (and least likely to win the current 2024 3-way election to replace her should DiFi serve out her term), is stirring up the shit, ably abetted by TPM who quote him without mentioning his campaign co-chair status.
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I’d support you grabbing him by the nuts, me doing this? Yuck.
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@occamscoin Thanks both, makes “sense” in the sense that GQP can throw gravel in the gears and pretend to be taking a principled stand. Of course, if the candidates are qualified, they should be voted out of committee in any case, but none of them are FedSoc drones so of course they are unacceptable to the GQP.
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It appears from all the reporting from all different angles that she’s alone in the world, no one to come home to and hash it out with. All she has is a gang of competing pols who only regard her as in impediment to their success and future accomplishments. I’m looking at her predicament from an apolitical angle, if people want to disagree, so be it.
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But your balls are big enough to take on the problem and add your solution. It’s Dianne Feinstein BTW, and not four initials but an abbreviation just adds to the disrespect people here are so willing to show her.
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Feinstein has a friend in Collins, and in Gillibrand as well, nothing wrong with that, one less senator itching to pile on while Feinstein’s going through a difficult phase of her career. Maybe these women understand they could be next in a hate campaign led by bullying, overly ambitious male pols.
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This is a viable alternative to the explanation that Collins isn’t just maneuvering for her party’s advantage. If Feinstein wasn’t reported as requesting a temporary replacement, I’d be more sympathetic to it.
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The answers are no, and McConnell has nuts?
Women are in the minority in the senate even though they’re about half the population in the country. It’s understandable some of those women senators would join ranks and support Feinstein in the short run.
I’m repeating myself here, but Feinstein has little left in her life but her job, and she’s clinging to it albeit for all the wrong reasons.
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This is just plain silly. I love Feinstein and wish her only the best. She should resign her Senate seat immediately. She hasn’t been up to serving for months now and shingles is only the most recent impairment. This is a “good of the country” matter. Well beyond the individual.
Expecting McConnell and the thugs on the right to do the right thing is a fool’s errand. We should all know better by now. It shouldn’t even be a consideration because it ain’t gonna happen. Dems have to assume that saving the judiciary and democracy is a one-party challenge. Theirs and theirs alone.
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Mitch voted to confirm judges Cannon and K, not to mention the embarrassments on the SCOTUS. He can fuck off with that insulting rhetoric.
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She did her job 45 years ago and for that reason we should allow the federal judiciary to slide into chaos in 2023? There comes a time when reality and necessity must supersede hagiography. Ginsburg did the same stupid thing. She let ego get in the way of political reality. Country must come first.
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This list doen’t have committee votes but it does have Senate confirmation vote results with links to the roll call. Almost half were confirmed with more than 51 votes.
Murkowski, Collins, Graham, and Tillis are among the most reasonable GQPers when it comes to judges.
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Well, there is the crux of the problem.
I have an enormous amount of respect for Sen. Feinstein, dating back to the Moscone/Milk murders and her stalwart behavior back then.
She’s had one hell of a great career, and it would be a shame for it to be tarnished by a refusal on her part to smell the coffee.
The best thing for her, and for the Senate, and for the country would be for her to reluctantly resign.
She would be feted by every thinking Democrat in America and would deserve massive amounts of praise for being unselfish and pragmatic.
I hope someone close to her can explain to her why this is the best path for her to take.
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