• dhork@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Democrats, because while she is not able to vote the Judiciary Committee is split evenly, and nothing will pass unless there is at least one Republican vote. Republicans have been clear they will not support Democrats replacing Feinstein temporarily while she is out sick. It looks like if they want to replace her, it would have to be permanent – and there’s no guarantee Republicans would support that, either.

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      There is a guarantee that they would, in fact, not support that. They are obstructionists, the party of minority rule who throw temper tantrums when they are not actively in power and imposing their minority views on the rest of us.