California Rep. Ro Khanna on Wednesday became the first Democratic lawmaker to openly call on Sen. Dianne Feinstein to step down, saying the longtime senator can no longer fulfill her duties.
Feinstein, also a California Democrat, has missed nearly two months of work at the Capitol after contracting shingles. Her absence from the critical Senate Judicial Committee has delayed votes on a number of President Joe Biden’s judicial nominations. On Monday, Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Ill., chair of the Judiciary Committee, told CNN that he “can’t consider nominees in these circumstances because a tie vote is a losing vote in committee.
“We have a crisis of reproductive rights in America with extremist Texas judges depriving Americans of their freedom to choose medicine,” Khanna told MarketWatch on Wednesday. “We can’t have Sen. Feinstein missing vote after vote on confirming judges. This is the moment for Gov. Newsom to take the lead in appointing someone so we can get the president’s judicial appointments confirmed.”
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