Josh Marshall lays out why Diane Feinstein needs to be counseled into retiring today and not at the end of her term. By all accounts, Feinstein is demonstrating signs of dementia. Not the Fox News "Joe Biden has dementia" slur, but she's both absent in DC and not especially helpful when she is there. No one wants to be accused of being "ageist" but she's 89 and has missed over 60 votes. Luckily, she has agreed to step down "temporarily" from the Senate Judiciary Committee, where he absence bottled up judicial confirmations, and it's unlikely that her vote will be needed on actual legislation.
Still, the seat doesn't belong to her. It belongs to the people of California and she is currently not able to do her job and - given her age - this is unlikely to change.
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