Blackburn: I Won’t Let Dems Replace Dianne Feinstein

The Hill reports:

Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) says he will move a resolution this week to temporarily replace Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) on the Judiciary Committee to keep President Biden’s judicial nominees moving to the floor.

Schumer said he hopes Republicans will support the resolution to fill Feinstein’s seat on the committee while the 89-year-old California senator recovers from a bout of shingles.

Democrats need to muster 60 votes to fill Feinstein’s seat on the committee because at least one Republican, Sen. Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.), has already said she will block any request for unanimous consent to seat another Democrat on the panel.

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I will not go along with Chuck Schumer’s plan to replace Senator Feinstein on the Judiciary Committee and pack the court with activist judges. Joe Biden wants the Senate to rubber stamp his unqualified and controversial judges to radically transform America.

— Sen. Marsha Blackburn (@MarshaBlackburn) April 17, 2023

Senate Democrats are also attempting to upend precedent and Senate custom by abolishing home-state Senators’ right to object to Biden’s activist liberal judges. We must stand up and protect the Senate’s constitutional role to provide advice and consent on judicial nominees.

— Sen. Marsha Blackburn (@MarshaBlackburn) April 17, 2023