Abortion-advocacy groups have called for Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) to step down as ranking member of the Senate Judiciary Committee after the confirmation hearings for Judge Amy Coney Barrett.
In an Oct. 16, statement, Ilyse Hogue, president of NARAL, called for “new leadership” for Democrats on the committee following Feinstein’s polite tone in remarks at the conclusion of the four days of Senate hearings last week.
During the hearing on Thursday, Feinstein thanked Sen. Lindsay Graham (R-SC), chairman of the Judiciary Committee, for presiding over “one of the best set of hearings that I’ve participated in.”
“I want to thank you for your fairness and the opportunity of going back and forth,” she said.
“It leaves one with a lot of hopes, a lot of questions, and even some ideas–perhaps some good bipartisan legislation we can put together to make this great country even better,” said Feinstein, who is pro-choice, has not supported the nomination of Barrett to the Supreme Court, and has in the past criticized the judge’s Catholicism.
The two senators then shook hands and embraced.
Feinstein’s remarks to Graham, Hogue alleged, lent an “appearance of credibility to the proceedings,” one that is “widely out of step with the American people.”
“As such, we believe the committee needs new leadership,” she said, calling Barrett’s confirmation process “illegitimate” and “a sham.”
Hogue said that Barrett, a Catholic, an appeals court judge, law professor, and mother of seven, poses “a grave threat to every freedom and right we hold dear and tears the very fabric of our democracy….”
NARAL was not the only organization calling for Feinstein to step down from her position. The group Demand Justice started a petition drive calling for Feinstein to resign from the committee, stating that the senator’s “behavior during Amy Coney Barrett’s confirmation hearings demonstrates that she is only standing in our way of fighting to protect our courts….”
Justice Democrats, which aims to elect progressive candidates to Congress, echoed the calls for Feinstein to depart from the Judiciary Committee, tweeting “Dianne Feinstein must step down….”
The above comes from an Oct. 19 story on the site of the Catholic News Agency.
Sadly, it seems a person cannot simply “give credit where credit is due” without incurring the wrath of woke leftists.
Christians have deep disagreements with many of the policies promoted by Ms. Feinstein. That said, her actions, simply civil and human acts, were, in this case, commendable.
As the senator may have discovered, the revolution does devour its own.
In polite company, I don’t refer to it as “woke” – Rather, I call it “wacked.”
Oops, I misspelled it. It should be “whacked”
Another example of radicals eating their own. Those who want her ousted will be followed by others who find them not radical enough, and on and on it will go. The Culture of Death is never satisfied, it always wants more blood and it doesn’t care who it comes from, even one of their own. Feinstein has outlived her purpose for them and is about to be sacrificed. The devil we know will be replaced by one we don’t, but at least we can be sure it’s someone else from the dark side. Would that we could say good riddance to them all.
I don’t agree with Feinstein on a lot of issues, but I watched the hearings for hours. I think that she is correct. The hearings should never have been held, but for all of Graham’s shortcomings, he did conduct a civil set of hearings. Those who are coming after Feinstein exemplifies one of the major calamities that we see every day that is bringing our nation to its knees. It is no longer OK to disagree with someone without making them an enemy, rather than the opposition. It’s my way or the highway is not the way a republic should govern.
The sad part about this is that any future Democrat who wishes to lead the caucus in any capacity knows that they might lose their position if they seek to be friendly and bipartisan with the Republicans.
Very sad for the future of deliberative lawmaking.
It is so refreshing to read such support for our senior Democratic senator Feinstein! You will be blessed!
Maria del Carmen, if You’re a Fellow Catholic, you would appreciate how DiFi is getting her comeuppance from those she considered friendly. There’s no love for this formerly useful tool from either side of the aisle, wipe away your tears and join the Church, then You will be blessed!
IF I am a Catholic? Why would you say that? Do you need my baptism certificate and a letter from my pastor? Someone at my parish recommended this site, but all I read are comments that are partisan, judgmental and just plain mean attacks on others.
Your partisan support of extremist Senator Feinstein, coupled with your previous post concerning mortal sin is fodder for speculation concerning just exactly what faith, if any, you profess. Secondly, to be a Catholic means to defend that Church and All of her teachings and thankfully there are those here who do that, even if you find it disagreeable. Lastly, hope you appreciated that I answered your mortal sin comment from the Bishop Daly story with the information and clarity you were seeking.
Clearly one person here judges who is worthy and I do not make the cut. I am a cradle Catholic who was taught that love for others and kindness to strangers was love for God. Reminds me of the funeral of the rector of the Oakland Cathedral last year. Sr. Eva was talking about his fame for kindness toward others as opposed to “those who love Jesus and no on else ” I will not disturb you anymore.
Maria del Carmen,
If ” Someone at (your) parish recommended this site”, maybe it was because
you are in need of faithful Catholic teaching by articles by faithful Bishops, Priests, etc.
or maybe you’re one of the many trolls sent here before the election to mislead readers.
Previously at a Court of Appeals confirmation hearing in 2017, Feinstein said to Judge Amy Coney Barrett, “the dogma lives loudly in you”.
She was trying to make the Catholic candidate a figure of mockery and impotence.
Feinstein apparently doesn’t understand the difference between dogma
and morality. She is really mocking morality. And as such – she is not fit to
to legislate.
Senator Feinstein has opposed Catholic teaching by her support of Planned Parenthood, abortion, DADT, etc
My opinion-Feinstein is Ok with the hearing process because of her opportunity to constantly grill the candidate and stress the importance of
Precedential Law over the Constitution.
(and in the past, through liberal judges, there are many objectionable Precedents.)
Maria, When approached here regarding your support of Feinstein, you
switched the topic to Love, avoiding your earlier indirect anti-catholic message. Anti-catholic messages and diversion tricks are addressed here.
So how is support for DFeinstein refreshing and a blessing?
I highly doubt Feinstein will see the beatific vision when she closes her eyes for the final time
I believe Sen Feinstein is in her mid 80s. She simply seemed to be trying to be civil with Sen Graham.
America needs to end this insane era of Satanic, violent, anti-Christian, anti-society, liberal “hippie” activism, tearing our country and churches to pieces! These shockingly egotistical, worthless “misfits” are way “too big for their britches,” and allowed way too much “tolerance” for their evils, and given way too much power and credibility! America’s Judeo-Christian Biblical foundations of “One Nation Under God” and Christian Morality– and Good Manners!– needs to be restored, in every area of our way of life! With Traditional Marriage (Man-Woman) and Children and Family, as the very heart and soul, the very core of our society! No more immoral, ignorant, “misfit freaks” gaining power, and running our great country like a bunch of wild, crazy “baboons”– and destroying it!
I have an elderly Jewish neighbor who has belonged to the same synagogue as Dianne Feinstein for many years. No doubt, in their mothers’ era, the radical, immoral, Godless liberal beatnik/hippie/feminist beliefs of many today, would have been shunned, despised, and forbidden! Before the modern era, most religions of the world solidly supported traditional religious beliefs and family values, and upheld traditional morality, and respect for God, religion and society. The traditional marriage, family, children, and home, was the core of religion, society, and of all civilization.The traditional Jewish mother was of tremendous importance in the Jewish family home! Sick, immoral, immature, anarchic “misfits” who lack respect for God, religion, morality, and society, should never have been allowed, in the modern era, any recognition, influence, power or leadership roles– huge mistake! No doubt, Sen. Feinstein’s Jewish mother, aunts, and grandmothers, would all be extremely horrified at such things as abortion, modern, Godless feminism, “LGBT” crazy gender beliefs, promiscuity, gay sex, “marriage” and gay adoptions (gay sex acts are a huge sin in the Jewish faith!) and many other horrors!
Well– Sen. Feinstein belongs to the Reform branch of Judaism– very liberal, adaptive to modern cultural trends– upholding both the Jewish family, kosher foods, and traditional worship and celebrations — and yet also accepting modern concepts of both men and women rabbis and cantors, bar mitzvahs and bat mitzvahs– as well as outright modernist “wrongs,” particularly, sexual sins. They reject traditional Judaism. However, Feinstein’s ancestors, before the Modern era, were all traditional, observant Jews, obedient to God, in their Torah.
Diane Feinstein, as Senator since 1992, has done some good but she has undermined the family structure and morality.
She has worked to maximize LGBTQ advantage by sponsoring bills to nullify Trump’s efforts in protections for religious freedom and his efforts to protect persons and organizations that engage in religious and political speech; and Treasury from taking adverse action against individuals, houses of worship, or religious organizations.
She has worked against all this administration’s Health Care improvement measures.
She is a Champion of abortion.
She puts great time and effort in having the FBI continue investigating Russian meddling in the last presidential election to project blame on Trump.
She is an obstructionist and diversionist to Trump’s effort to improve conditions.
Of course the hearings should be held. The Republicans have the potential votes.
Since this is a life term office vacancy, its their duty to assign an ethical candidate.
If the Democrats were so concerned they could have begged the frail R.B.Ginsberg to retire when they had the votes.
Her deathbed wish that the new judge be assigned after the election shows she didn’t care for the future of her obvious preferred party and only wanted her status and power.
Ms. Feinstein was educated by the nuns at the Convent of the Sacred Heart here in San Francisco, probably the most traditional school in the City.
I was told that Feinstein is Jewish! Anyway– the Convent of the Sacred Heart schools abandoned Catholicism during the years following the Second Vatican Council. Nancy Pelosi also assisted in their modernist, immoral, heretical, nearly “anti-Catholic” (“Cafeteria Catholic”) “radicalization,” when her five daughters were enrolled there.
Anonymous, you are correct– Feinstein first attended a Jewish school, then her mother decided to send her to the Convent of the Sacred Heart– and she became their first Jewish graduate! She met other students of wealthy, prestigious, politically influential families there, which sparked her interest in a future political career. Her family also was influential in helping to establish a couple of prominent Jewish synagogues and temples in the city.
As the LA Times previously reported:
On Capitol Hill, Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) has emerged as one of the staunchest proponents of closer U.S. relations with China, fighting for permanent most-favored-nation trading status for Beijing.
At the same time, far from the spotlight, Feinstein’s husband, Richard C. Blum, has expanded his private business interests in China–to the point that his firm is now a prominent investor inside the communist nation.
For years, Feinstein and Blum have insisted that they maintained a solid “firewall” between her role as an influential foreign policy player and his career as a private investor overseas.
But such closely coinciding interests are highly unusual for major figures in public life in Washington. And now, as controversy heats up over improper foreign influence in the U.S. political process, the effectiveness of the firewall between those interests could be called into question.
Sen. Feinstein’s grandparents were Polish Jews (paternal grandparents) and Russian Jews (maternal grandparents), who escaped deadly Communist tyranny, and came to the United States. Hopefully, the blessed American descendants of such immigrants, will not betray America, and lead her straight back to the deadly jaws of Communist tyranny!
All 10 Democrats on the Senate Judiciary Committee shamefully boycotted Judge Amy Coney Barrett’s Senate Committee vote today—and so she was unanimously approved by the remaining 12 Republicans! The full Senate will vote on Monday. The Democratic Party is so partisan, and so full of the “Modernist””Death Culture”– it is no longer authentically “American!” Nor “Constitutional”— they write their own, fake, immoral “Ultra-Liberal Beatnik/Hippie/Liberal-Socialist Academia Constitution!” And, of course– Anti-Catholic, Anti-Christian, Anti-God, and Anti-Traditional Marriage, Family, and Children! Unrecognizable! No authentic, red-blooded, God-worshiping, honest, morally-decent, good Americans, here!