At least three Republican senators have said they will not support a move to temporarily replace Dianne Feinstein on the Senate Judiciary Committee — saying they didn't want to help Democrats advance Pres. Biden's agenda.
April 17, 2023, 5:15 PMSen. Marsha Blackburn speaks during a news conference on the border, Feb. 15, 2023, on Capitol Hill in Washington., D-Calif., on the Senate Judiciary Committee -- saying they wouldn't want to help Democrats advance President Joe Biden's agenda.
On Monday afternoon, Sen. John Cornyn, R-Texas, who sits on the committee, became the most recent Republican to voice his opposition to temporarily replacing Feinstein while she recovers at home from having shingles, signaling an uphill battle Senate Democrats face in securing a replacement. "Never, not once, have we allowed temporary substitutes on committees, and now is not the time to start. Republicans are not going to break this precedent in order to bail out Senator Schumer or the Biden administration's most controversial nominees," Cornyn, a senior Republican close to Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, claimed. "Senator Feinstein has been a mainstay of this body for more than three decades, and I hope to see her back in these halls soon.
to find a senator to temporarily replace Feinstein on the committee, the first step in freeing up a log-jam of politically important judicial nominations accumulated in her absence. Senator Dianne Feinstein moves through the Senate subway during a vote at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, September 21, 2022.The Senate Judiciary Committee, where Democrats hold a mere one-seat majority, as they do in the full chamber, is the first stop for the president's judicial nominations. With lifetime appointments, judges can deeply shape how the nation's laws are interpreted.
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