Posted on 04/18/2023 7:29:19 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
The continued — an increasingly curious — absence of Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) from her duties in the upper chamber of Congress is becoming a growing thorn in the sides of the Democrats. Feinstein is a member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, and her prolonged recovery from shingles has ground to a halt the Democrats’ ability to further pollute the judicial system with activist judges who have been nominated by Joe Biden’s puppeteers.
Over the weekend, Matt wrote a VIP column about Sen. Tom Cotton (R-Ark.) asserting that the Republicans on the committee not let Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) get away with temporarily replacing Feinstein in order to proceed with the commiefication of the judiciary.
In a refreshing show of unity, Republican senators from various points along the GOP ideological spectrum are agreeing with Cotton. One of the first was conservative Sen. Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.):
I will not go along with Chuck Schumer’s plan to replace Senator Feinstein on the Judiciary Committee and pack the court with activist judges. Joe Biden wants the Senate to rubber stamp his unqualified and controversial judges to radically transform America.
— Sen. Marsha Blackburn (@MarshaBlackburn) April 17, 2023
Schumer is going to need some Republican defectors to make this work, which is why it was encouraging to see Judiciary Committee members Sen. John Cornyn (R-Texas) and Sen. Thom Tillis (R-N.C.) join Cotton and Blackburn in saying that they won’t go along with the Dems’ end-around.
Sen. Thom Tillis (R-N.C.), who has worked with Democratic senators to pass gun reforms and other bipartisan legislation, announced he would not back replacing her.
“I deeply respect Senator Feinstein, but this is an unprecedented request solely intended to appease those pushing for radical, activist judges,” Tillis wrote on Twitter.
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God works in mysterious ways.
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Personally, it’s always a good thing when the Senate can’t vote. Besides, we got Jo Jo the Pedo King now. He’ll just sign another EO (aka royal proclamation) written for him by his Millennial and Zero Generation aides and the jackasses living in this country will allow him to get away with it.
She doesn’t have a spouse so the Democrats can’t just pass the seat to the spouse.
The republicans will huff and puff but at the end will go spelunking as they always do
Wow - if Schumer's lost Tillis...
Never underestimate the cowardice of the Republican Party
This must have been deemed a safe position to take for them to be willing to do it.
When even John Cornyn takes a firm position, it is clear the Dems have pushed their limits.
Had the solar panels installed? Could take a while to recoup that investment.
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