There is already a hotly contested race for the California seat she planned to vacate in 2024.
California senior Sen. Dianne Feinstein has died at the age of 90. The longest serving female senator in American history, and the Senate’s oldest member, she had planned to retire at the end of 2024.
Feinstein’s reputation has evolved greatly over her 30 years in the senate: She is best known variously for her work on gun control and women’s rights, her commitment to finding common ground with Republicans, and finally, for her long and very public health decline and her refusal to step down. She was also the driving force behind the famed Torture Report, the multiyear investigation into the CIA’s post-9/11 enhanced interrogation practices published in 2014.
In recent years, Feinstein has mostly been known for her deteriorating cognitive health and her opposition to progressives in her own party.
Feinstein was absent from the Senate in the spring to deal with complications from a bout of shingles. She returned in bad health, wheelchair-bound and at times, seemingly unaware of her own prolonged absence. Still, many of her defenders in the Democratic Party resisted calls for her to resign.
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