Analysis: For decades, only the occasional high-profile battles over the Supreme Court drew national attention
But those two lions of the Senate served in a recent-but-different era. Their absences never impacted the outcome of a judicial confirmation and they never faced calls to resign the way Sen. Dianne Feinstein has in recent weeks.
expected to spend a vast amount of their time trying to reverse Republican gains made in the federal courts during the Donald Trump’s administration.Advertisement This legislative atrophy, particularly over the last decade, raises the stakes on trying to stack as many friendly jurists onto the federal bench whenever your party controls the White House and Senate.“Judges are perceived as political actors, and so they become a political football. So that’s a tragedy in my view,” Sen. John Cornyn , a senior member of the Judiciary Committee, said Tuesday.
Senior Judiciary Democrats saw the rejection of Feinstein’s request for a temporary replacement as part of the long conservative effort to control the judiciary. But there’s a palpable, unspoken concern among Democrats that she could be out much longer — both McCain and Kennedy went stretches of more than six months without casting a vote. And that would leave the most liberal-leaning jurists stuck in committee, needing Feinstein’s tiebreaking vote to advance.
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