This statement from Feinstein’s office immediately contradicts itself. First it says that her absence has caused “no slowdown” in the confirmation of nominees. Then it notes that Republicans continue to block some nominees from moving forward and that they can move forward when (i.e. “if”) she returns.
This nonsense doesn’t show that Feinstein is no longer competent. We already knew that. It shows that the staff desperately keeping her in office is no longer competent. https://mastodon.social/@GottaLaff/110312202428313162
To be fair, the two statements are talking about different things, the whole Senate vs the Judiciary Committee.
The Senate has a backlog of nominees awaiting consideration by the whole Senate, so they're working through that backlog even if the Judiciary Committee is moving a little slow adding more to the end of the line.
Not that this statement really *needs* to be taken seriously, but at least it's a moment to talk about Senate procedure... among people nerdy enough to be interested in that stuff :)
