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Sen. Feinstein to Step Down from Senate Judiciary Committee After Backlash from Progressives
Townhall ^ | 11/24/2020 | Reagan McCarthy

Posted on 11/24/2020 6:39:50 AM PST by SeekAndFind

Senator Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) revealed on Monday afternoon that she will step down as Democrats’ highest-ranking member on the Senate Judiciary Committee. The California Democrat faced an abundance of scrutiny from progressive lawmakers and activists for her civil behavior toward Justice Amy Coney Barrett during her confirmation hearings in October. Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) and others indicated that Sen. Feinstein is not combative enough to handle the position on the committee.

“After serving as the lead Democrat on the Judiciary Committee for four years, I will not seek the chairmanship or ranking member position in the next Congress,” Sen. Feinstein said in a statement. “I look forward to continuing to serve as a senior Democrat on the Judiciary, Intelligence, Appropriations and Rules committees as we work with the Biden administration.”

After Sen. Feinstein’s announcement, Illinois Sen. Dick Durbin said that he would seek to replace her as Democrats’ highest-ranking member on the judiciary committee.

Dick Durbin, who is next up, will seek the position, his spokeswoman says.

Durbin is also the Democratic Whip, but that does not appear to preclude his taking a top committee post. https://t.co/hc0CSSHjsF— Nicholas Fandos (@npfandos) November 23, 2020

Far-left activist and former Hillary Clinton aide Brian Fallon, who contributed to much of the crazed conspiracy theories that circulated during Justice Brett Kavanaugh’s confirmation, was a driving force behind the activist movement supporting Sen. Feinstein’s ousting. He said that the California Democrat clings to a “bygone era of civility and decorum,” after previously accusing Sen. Feinstein of “undercutting” Democrats’ agenda for simply acting civilly toward Republicans.

Republicans are poised to hold the majority in the Senate, pending Georgia’s pair of runoff elections in January, and Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-IA) is slated to step back in as Chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee.



TOPICS: Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: California
KEYWORDS: california; diannefeinstein; feinstein; judiciary; progressives; senate
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1 posted on 11/24/2020 6:39:50 AM PST by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind

She isn’t stepping down. She got fired.


2 posted on 11/24/2020 6:40:29 AM PST by ealgeone
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To: SeekAndFind

It’s a sad testament to the state of affairs with the Dem party that Feinstein isn’t enough of a bitch for the job.


3 posted on 11/24/2020 6:41:45 AM PST by dirtboy
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“..It’s a sad testament to the state of affairs with the Dem party that Feinstein isn’t enough of a bitch for the job....”

Ain’t that the truth.
She just wasn’t “commie” enough....LOL


4 posted on 11/24/2020 6:43:45 AM PST by lgjhn23 (Libs are a virus.....the DemoVirus!!)
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To: SeekAndFind

She was too conservative....ROTFLMAO!!!!!!!!


5 posted on 11/24/2020 6:43:52 AM PST by ontap
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To: SeekAndFind

The California Democrat faced an abundance of scrutiny from progressive lawmakers and activists for her civil behavior toward Justice Amy Coney Barrett during her confirmation hearings in October.


So the Democrats prefer uncivil behavior during confirmation hearings? They prefer a belligerent antagonistic cross examination of the suspect in such hearings????


6 posted on 11/24/2020 6:44:31 AM PST by Dilbert San Diego
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To: SeekAndFind

The cancel culture will eat their own. And they will go much farther than this, once they solidify their power.


7 posted on 11/24/2020 6:45:16 AM PST by brownsfan (Behold, the power of government cheese.)
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To: lgjhn23

Instead they’re going to have “Turban Durbin,” as his nickname used to be, who is not only pro-Communist but pro-Islamist. Figures.


8 posted on 11/24/2020 6:45:20 AM PST by livius
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To: SeekAndFind

So what minority will take over


9 posted on 11/24/2020 6:45:45 AM PST by RummyChick (I blame Kushner.)
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To: livius

Surprised it isnt the hawaiian


10 posted on 11/24/2020 6:46:27 AM PST by RummyChick (I blame Kushner.)
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To: SeekAndFind

More evidence of just how extreme the left has become.


11 posted on 11/24/2020 6:46:48 AM PST by Stravinsky (Politeness will not defeat the Marxist revolutionaries)
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To: RummyChick

They’re probably saving her for something even more powerful.


12 posted on 11/24/2020 6:47:26 AM PST by livius
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To: SeekAndFind

Next in her agenda: Not seek re-election, citing “age” or “health”.


13 posted on 11/24/2020 6:48:52 AM PST by Ebenezer (Strength and Honor!)
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To: Dilbert San Diego
So the Democrats prefer uncivil behavior during confirmation hearings? They prefer a belligerent antagonistic cross examination of the suspect in such hearings????

Of course. They lionize their new leader, AOC. Wild-eyed wimmin' is their ideal.


14 posted on 11/24/2020 6:49:44 AM PST by COBOL2Java (Joe Biden: Barack Obama minus the pretty talk.)
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To: SeekAndFind

“(After a considerable payoff) Sen. Diane Feinstein Steps Down....”

The only thing they crave more than control is money, 99% chance she didn’t do this willingly.


15 posted on 11/24/2020 6:51:49 AM PST by jughandle (Big words anger me, keep talking. )
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To: SeekAndFind

The purge of the leftard Bolsheviks gegins...


16 posted on 11/24/2020 6:51:56 AM PST by Common Sense 101
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To: SeekAndFind

She is being ousted because she, supposedly, is from a bygone era of civility and decorum.

Let that sink in as to what the Democrat party has in store if they take the Senate.


17 posted on 11/24/2020 6:55:24 AM PST by Nathan _in_Arkansas (Shut the deuce up!!! I'll do the fighting!!!)
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Bygone days of civility. How sad. I miss those days.

This after her comments about the dogma lives within you last time around.


18 posted on 11/24/2020 6:56:40 AM PST by gcparent (Justice Amy Coney Barrett)
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“clings to a “bygone era of civility and decorum,””

I tell you what, the Bolsheviks put it right out there they have no intention of being civil. They want chaos, not law and order.

They should be careful what they wish for.


19 posted on 11/24/2020 7:00:57 AM PST by twoputt
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“The next senator to serve as the lead Democrat on the Senate Judiciary Committee cannot wishfully cling to a bygone era of civility and decorum. It will take someone committed to undoing the damage Trump and McConnell have done to our courts, no matter what it takes.— “

Republicans, are you listening?


20 posted on 11/24/2020 7:01:01 AM PST by Rusty0604 (2020 four more years!)
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