Despite prior warnings from big-name Democrats, Senate Republicans have indicated they...
Feinstein’s death Thursday will put that theory to the test. In the coming days, high-profile Democrats may also be in the uncomfortable position of explaining why they insisted that a clearly ailing woman needed to stay in office to keep casting votes.conservative senators like Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, had already indicated that they “wouldn’t do that,” referencing the idea of blocking a full-time committee appointment. The ranking member of the Judiciary Committee, Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C.
A spokesperson for Sen. John Cornyn, R-Texas, who’s also on the Judiciary Committee, sent along the senator’s comments from a reporter scrum earlier in the day: “I don’t think this should be handled any differently than filling any other vacancy,” Cornyn said. “The problem was there wasn’t a true vacancy before.”A spokesperson for Sen. Josh Hawley, R-Mo., referred SFGATE to a quote Hawley“Democrats have a majority in the Senate.
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