DiFi in hospital with shingles
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From what I have read about her, she is no longer functioning very well.
She is a good example of why there is needed to be an age limit on politicians/judges, etc. (Maybe 80 years old. You would have to leave office in the calendar year you turn 80 would be my suggestion.)
@taiwan_girl said in DiFi in hospital with shingles:
there is needed to be an age limit on politicians/judges, etc.
Agreed, for the most part. However, enacting such a limit is going to be a VERY heavy lift - a Constitutional amendment, I would suspect.
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The founding fathers set lower age limits but not upper age limits. Had they set upped age limits they might have picked something like 60~70, limited by the prevailing view on human lifespan at the time. And the limit would be outdated given the advances in healthcare. We can pick a different number now, 80 or whatever. Should the Union survives another two centuries, future Americans may have to revise the age limit again.
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https://www.sfchronicle.com/politics/article/dianne-feinstein-calls-resignation-17891779.php
Sen. Feinstein did not resign, but asked to be "temporarily replaced" on the judiciary committee, a request that Schumer has granted.
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Hours after Khanna’s tweet, she asked to be temporarily replaced in her duties on the essential committee. Democrats are eager to comply.
But are Republicans so eager? They shouldn’t be. There’s zero reason — zero — that Republicans should cooperate with Schumer and the president on their judicial agenda, either tactically, politically, or even morally.
Republicans have the power, too: Committee assignments are decided at the beginning of the session, either by unanimous consent or, if contested, by the vote of at least 60 senators. Democrats certainly hope they can just brush this through under the former, but what reason does Sen. Josh Hawley, or maybe Sen. Mike Lee, or Sen. J.D. Vance have to let that one pass them by?
Then if one senator says no, the whole thing’s got to come to a vote, and while people like Sen. Mitt Romney might be happy to fill benches with left-wing judges in the name of “decency” or some other principle long ago extinguished by left-wing activists, getting nine other Republicans to join him might prove more difficult.
The task of persuading 10 Republicans to cooperate with the president’s judicial agenda will prove even more difficult if Sen. Mitch McConnell — himself just out of the hospital (and seven years older than Josef Stalin was when he died) — holds the line. While populist conservatives may have little love for the minority leader, they must give him credit for hard-nosed judiciary tactics.
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I remember that there have been discussions on here about why Democrats should not be so eager to change Senate rules/precedent.
"What goes around comes around"
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I remember that there have been discussions on here about why Democrats should not be so eager to change Senate rules/precedent.
"What goes around comes around"
@taiwan_girl said in DiFi in hospital with shingles:
"What goes around comes around"
You can say that again, and again, and again.
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Senate Republicans on Tuesday evening blocked a request from Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer to temporarily replace Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., on the Judiciary Committee so that committee has the numbers to advance President Biden’s judicial nominees.
Schumer, D-N.Y., introduced the resolution and asked that it be approved by unanimous consent – a method that requires every senator to agree. Unanimous consent allows the Senate to quickly approve non-controversial measures without hours and days of necessary debate in the upper chamber.
But Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., stood to oppose the move and [rejected] Schumer’s request. That objection means Democrats will need to find 60 votes to approve his request, which will require 10 Republicans to cross the aisle.
