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In reply to the discussion: Dear Senator Dianne Feinstein: This is not about you. [View all]bigtree
(86,016 posts)...even Durbin isn't saying this is about some current problem.
We still have some nominees left on the calendar that we can work on
But we have more in the wings that we would like to process through the committee, Durbin said.
https://www.cnn.com/2023/04/10/politics/biden-judges-senate-blue-slips-absences/index.html
also Axios:
"Even if Republicans don't acquiesce to replacing Feinstein, that doesn't stop Democrats from confirming nearly 20 judicial nominees already advanced out of Judiciary, noted Josh Chafetz, a law professor at Georgetown University Law Center.
"This all seems a bit premature," he told Axios, "given how many judicial nominees are sitting on the executive calendar. It'll take the Senate a while ... to get through everyone who has already been voted out of committee."
Many of the nominees still before the committee could garner enough GOP support to not be affected, according to a source familiar with the process, who said just a handful of party-line appointments are at risk."
https://www.axios.com/2023/04/13/dems-substitute-feinstein-judiciary-committee