The senator’s response to the supreme court hearings has sparked calls for her retirement. Many of her progressive colleagues have sought it for years
It was a hug that would have shocked many, even in a year without social distancing: Dianne Feinstein, the top Democrat on the Senate judiciary committee, ending a contentious week of supreme court confirmation hearings with a full-body embrace of Lindsay Graham, the committee’s Republican chair.
The act and her remarks about the hearings for Judge Amy Coney Barrett – “This has been one of the best set of hearings that I’ve participated in” – sparked calls among progressives for her retirement, and outcry that she had been in office for too long. Many of the California senator’s constituents and her more progressive Democratic Party colleagues have been arguing that for years.
Continue reading…The senator’s response to the supreme court hearings has sparked calls for her retirement. Many of her progressive colleagues have sought it for years It was a hug that would have shocked many, even in a year without social distancing: Dianne Feinstein, the top Democrat on the Senate judiciary committee, ending a contentious week of supreme court confirmation hearings with a full-body embrace of Lindsay Graham, the committee’s Republican chair.The act and her remarks about the hearings for Judge Amy Coney Barrett – “This has been one of the best set of hearings that I’ve participated in” – sparked calls among progressives for her retirement, and outcry that she had been in office for too long. Many of the California senator’s constituents and her more progressive Democratic Party colleagues have been arguing that for years. Continue reading…