Gerontocracy (noun) : rule by elders: specifically, a form of social organization in which a group of old men or a council of elders dominates or exercises control.
Two-hundred forty-five years.
Two-hundred forty-five years ago the Declaration of Independence was signed in Philadelphia during the Second Continental Congress. Two-hundred forty-five years also happens to be the cumulative ages of the current Speaker of the House (Nancy Pelosi), House majority leader (Steny Hoyer) and majority whip (Jim Clyburn).
All three of them, of course, have declared they are running for re-election no matter how calamitous the midterm elections turn out to be for their own party.
The Senate is now the oldest it has been in all of American history. Last year, The Washington Post <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/2021/06/02/senate-age-term-limits/">noted,</a> “Twenty-three members of the Senate are in their 70’s; only one is under 40. According to the Congressional Research Service, the average age of senators at the beginning of this year was 64.3 years—the oldest in history.”
My senator, Dianne Feinstein, turns 89 next month and has been the subject of <a href="https://www.sfchronicle.com/politics/article/dianne-feinstein-senate-17079487.php">a whisper campaign</a> questioning her mental capacity to continue in the job. Charles Grassley, of Iowa, has been a senator for over four decades.
Elderly senators are not a new phenomenon, of course—Strom Thurmond ran for president in 1948 and, 53 years later, was not only still in office, but was actually third in line to the presidency as President Pro Tempore. Robert Byrd, of West Virginia, required <a href="https://www.modernhealthcare.com/article/20100628/NEWS/306289979/sen-robert-byrd-of-west-virginia-dead-at-92">two canes to walk</a> and, towards the end of his career, needed a wheelchair to travel around the capital.  
Joe Biden will be 82 years old at the end of his current term of office. He has already <a href="https://thehill.com/news/administration/3272281-biden-has-told-obama-hes-running-again/">told President Obama</a> he plans on running again in 2024. If Bernie Sanders had won the nomination and general election in 2020, he would have been 83 at the end of his first term. If Donald Trump pulls a Grover Cleveland and becomes the second non-consecutive two-term president in American history, he would be 82 at the end of his second term. 
In the past seventeen years, three sitting members of the Supreme Court have died while still serving. In the aftermath of a stroke, William O. Douglas’s health was so imperiled his fellow justices decided he would no longer write opinions and even said they would <a href="https://wamu.org/story/19/01/23/from-cover-ups-to-secret-plots-the-murky-history-of-supreme-justices-health/">refuse to count his vote</a> if he was part of a 5-4 majority. At 80 and suffering from thyroid cancer, William Rehnquist unequivocally <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2005/07/15/politics/rehnquist-denies-rumor-of-retirement.html">announced</a>, “I want to put to rest the speculation and unfounded rumors of my imminent retirement. I am not about to announce my retirement.” John Paul Stevens was 90 when he finally decided to retire. Ruth Bader Ginsburg was 87 when she passed away, almost certainly attempting to serve until a Democrat president could replace her.    
Yes, we have an age problem in our nation’s capital. 
Essays bemoaning the advanced age of the United States Congress and Judiciary are all the rage these days—<a href="https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2021/03/gerontocracy-is-hurting-american-democracy.html">New York Magazine</a>, <a href="https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2020/09/supreme-court-retirement-age/616458/">The Atlantic</a>, and The Washington Post have all published them recently. But it isn’t just the Senate. 
 It’s clear we have a holistic age problem in our system of government and it is present at the commanding heights of all three branches of government.  
Don’t get me wrong. I have a deep and profound reverence for our elders, especially in the realm of political discourse. I’d much rather have the Pelosi-Hoyer-Clyburn trifecta running things in the House than “The Squad.” Henry Clay came out of retirement to help craft the Compromise of 1850 and avoid a premature Civil War. President Reagan was one of the most significant presidents of the 20th century and was also the oldest in history at the time. 
Older representatives and senators tend to be humbler in their capacities, more generous towards their colleagues, and aware of the arduous but necessary task of coalition-building through brokering consensus. They are not engulfed by the braggadocio and balderdash required to make a splash on social media or cable news. I am even beginning to much prefer an elderly Jerry Brown to a spry Gavin Newsom. 
Still. 
In order for our institutions to function properly, they must be populated by public servants who are unencumbered by the ailments of advancing age. The essential problem with a gerontocracy is that, in the winter of life, a four or six or life term can translate into a public servant possessing far different capacities at the end of a term than at the beginning. It is not ageist to worry about President Biden’s capacity two years into the future. It is not ageist to believe, like <a href="https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2020/09/supreme-court-retirement-age/616458/">Canada, Britain and Australia do,</a> that judges should not be allowed to continue in their jobs in perpetuity, regardless of their mental or physical state.   
The Founders were certainly concerned with age, but not old age, perhaps because they had achieved so much as young men. Jefferson penned the Declaration of Independence at thirty-three. Madison wrote the Virginia Plan when he was merely thirty-six years old and his collaborator on The Federalist Papers, Alexander Hamilton, was a buoyant thirty years of age at the Philadelphia convention. Teddy Roosevelt ascended to the presidency at the age of forty-two.  In Federalist Paper 62, Madison argued that minimum age requirements would provide for a “stability of character.” 
So, why were maximum age limits not discussed in Philadelphia? 
Obviously, people didn’t live as long as they live today. It simply wasn’t an option for leaders to serve in office decades beyond the peak of their vitality. 
But here is the real constitutional conundrum: notions of leadership and public virtue were wholly different during the genesis of the American republic. Overt political ambition was considered gauche and public service was supposed to be a temporary activity, not a way of life or career. Even those who clamored for power had to camouflage their ultimate aspirations in a veneer of oblique indifference. Madison had to beg Washington to chair the Constitutional Convention. Jefferson stepped back and let Madison take part in the party machinations that would eventually deliver TJ the presidency in 1800. Active campaigning was a prima facie disqualification for higher office. 
Not so today. 
No one pretends anymore. As much as normal people wonder why Pelosi, Feinstein, and Grassley don’t decide to spend more time with their grandchildren or take more Viking cruises, the modern reality is their thirst for political power often outweighs their capacity to effectively exercise it. Older congressmen and senators become far too reliant on staff to carry out their responsibilities. Supreme Court justices lean on their clerks. And in the case of President Biden, youthful and more progressive advisors clearly have many hands on the wheel of policymaking at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.   
There is a clear—admittedly undemocratic—solution at our disposal: amend the Constitution to set mandatory retirement ages for all three branches. What those ages should be and if they should differ from branch to branch is up for debate. Career politicians and lifetime appointees require an additional check on their power; a 28th amendment would be a logical and just measure to find a middle ground between pursuing a noble life of public service and endlessly indulging venal quests for power and position.          
Jeremy S. Adams is the author of the recently-released Amazon best-selling book Hollowed Out: A Warning About America&#8217;s Next Generation. He has taught American civics for 24 years in Bakersfield, California and was the 2014 California Teacher of the Year (DAR). You can follow him on Twitter @JeremyAdams6.

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Not only are President Joe Biden&#8217;s approval ratings in the dumper, a lot of Americans don&#8217;t even think the 79 year old will finish his term.
Biden has only been in office a little more than 14 months, but one in five don&#8217;t think he&#8217;ll last the next 33 months, a new survey found.
&#8220;[A]fter a year of record inflation and gasoline price hikes, devastating COVID lockdowns, a surge of illegal immigration, the botched departure from Afghanistan, and growing questions over the 79-year-old president’s mental fitness, a surprising number of Americans now think Biden won’t last even another two and a half years in office, according to the latest I&amp;I/TIPP Poll,&#8221; Issues &amp; Insights <a href="https://issuesinsights.com/2022/04/18/will-biden-even-finish-his-1st-term-one-in-five-say-no-ii-tipp-poll/">reported</a>.
When asked “In your opinion, how likely is it that Joe Biden will complete his first term in office?” a large majority (71%) said it&#8217;s likely. But 21% said it was “not likely” he&#8217;ll finish his term.
&#8220;A closer look at the data provides little comfort for Biden’s own pollsters and political advisers,&#8221; Issues Insights reported. &#8220;Just 45% of those responding said it was &#8216;very likely&#8217; Biden would last. Some 25% said it was only &#8216;somewhat likely,&#8217; hardly a vote of confidence in Biden’s presidential future. Another 8% said they are &#8216;not sure.'&#8221;
The new survey comes just days after some Senate colleagues questioned whether Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) is still fit for office.
&#8220;When a California Democrat in Congress recently engaged in an extended conversation with Sen. Dianne Feinstein, they prepared for a rigorous policy discussion like those they’d had with her many times over the last 15 years,&#8221; The San Francisco Chronicle <a href="https://www.sfchronicle.com/politics/article/dianne-feinstein-senate-17079487.php">reported</a>. &#8220;Instead, the lawmaker said, they had to reintroduce themselves to Feinstein multiple times during an interaction that lasted several hours.&#8221;
&#8220;Rather than delve into policy, Feinstein, 88, repeated the same small-talk questions, like asking the lawmaker what mattered to voters in their district, the member of Congress said, with no apparent recognition the two had already had a similar conversation,&#8221; the paper said.
Of course, lawmakers don&#8217;t like to simply retire and fade away. They&#8217;ve spent their lives in the limelight and disappearing is their big fear. What&#8217;s more, when lawmakers die in office, they sometimes lay in state in the U.S. Capitol, a high honor.
But there is concern now that Feinstein is &#8220;rapidly deteriorating.&#8221;
&#8220;Four U.S. senators, including three Democrats, as well as three former Feinstein staffers and the California Democratic member of Congress told The Chronicle in recent interviews that her memory is rapidly deteriorating. They said it appears she can no longer fulfill her job duties without her staff doing much of the work required to represent the nearly 40 million people of California,&#8221; the Chronicle said in a piece headlined &#8220;Colleagues worry Dianne Feinstein is now mentally unfit to serve, citing recent interactions.&#8221;
The questions about Feinstein <a href="https://video.foxnews.com/v/6304070715001#sp=show-clips" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">prompted</a> MSNBC’s Chuck Todd to say: “It’s a tricky thing. If you start &#8230; questioning Dianne Feinstein, the president of the United States is going to start getting this stuff, and that’s something the party doesn’t want to have to deal with, those questions here.”
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Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) is 88 and still serving in the Senate. Some colleagues are beginning to question whether she is still fit for office.
&#8220;When a California Democrat in Congress recently engaged in an extended conversation with Sen. Dianne Feinstein, they prepared for a rigorous policy discussion like those they’d had with her many times over the last 15 years,&#8221; The San Francisco Chronicle <a href="https://www.sfchronicle.com/politics/article/dianne-feinstein-senate-17079487.php">reported</a>. &#8220;Instead, the lawmaker said, they had to reintroduce themselves to Feinstein multiple times during an interaction that lasted several hours.&#8221;
&#8220;Rather than delve into policy, Feinstein, 88, repeated the same small-talk questions, like asking the lawmaker what mattered to voters in their district, they said, with no apparent recognition the two had already had a similar conversation,&#8221; the paper said.
Of course, lawmakers don&#8217;t like to simply retire and fade away. They&#8217;ve spent their lives in the limelight and disappearing is their big fear. What&#8217;s more, when lawmakers die in office, they sometimes lay in state in the U.S. Capitol, a high honor.
But there is concern now that Feinstein is &#8220;rapidly deteriorating.&#8221;
&#8220;Four U.S. senators, including three Democrats, as well as three former Feinstein staffers and the California Democratic member of Congress told The Chronicle in recent interviews that her memory is rapidly deteriorating. They said it appears she can no longer fulfill her job duties without her staff doing much of the work required to represent the nearly 40 million people of California,&#8221; the Chronicle said in a piece headlined &#8220;Colleagues worry Dianne Feinstein is now mentally unfit to serve, citing recent interactions.&#8221;
Feinstein won’t be up for re-election until 2024, but she has filed paperwork indicating she might run again. In January 2021, she filed the initial re-election paperwork with the Federal Election Commission (FEC) last week, L.A. Magazine <a href="https://www.lamag.com/citythinkblog/dianne-feinstein-has-filed-initial-paperwork-to-run-again-in-2024/">reported</a>.
A Feinstein rep reached out to L.A. Magazine to clarify what the FEC filings allegedly mean. “To be clear, Senator Feinstein has had a campaign committee since she took office, as all senators must. In order to keep this account active, the senator has to maintain filings with the FEC. Yesterday’s filings merely reflected an updated address,” the rep said. They also claimed that they didn’t have any “announcement” regarding a 2024 Feinstein run.
The Chronicle cited other unnamed people, including senators, who said it&#8217;s clear Feinstein is deteriorating. “It’s bad, and it’s getting worse,” one Democratic senator told the paper. &#8220;This person said that within the Senate, Feinstein has difficulty keeping up with conversations and discussions.&#8221;
“There’s a joke on the Hill, we’ve got a great junior senator in Alex Padilla and an experienced staff in Feinstein’s office,” said a staffer for a California Democrat.
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Studies have shown that the Omicron variant of SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, seems to be far less dangerous than previous strains. <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/omicron-80-less-likely-to-lead-to-hospitalization-than-delta-researchers-say">Omicron</a> is up to 80% less likely to cause hospitalizations, and those who contract Omicron have milder symptoms overall, according to a report from the British government. 
But those studies haven’t stopped some public officials, such as Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-CA), from stoking fear about the “danger of Omicron.”
“California is now seeing nearly 15,000 new Covid-19 cases every day, a five-fold growth in just one month,” Feinstein said in a <a href="https://www.feinstein.senate.gov//public/index.cfm/press-releases?ContentRecord_id=3D8AA477-C77C-4C7F-9065-685FEE300F18">press release</a> Tuesday. “And hotspots like Los Angeles are seeing even faster spread, with new cases up 450 percent in just two weeks.”
The senator is right about the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/omicron-covid-variant-now-estimated-to-be-58-6-of-all-u-s-cases-cdc-says">increasing spread</a> of Omicron. The strain is “now estimated to be 58.6% of all U.S. cases,” according to the CDC, and Feinstein is concerned that those numbers could climb and result in more hospitalizations following family holiday gatherings, but her warning of the danger of Omicron doesn&#8217;t match up with recent revelations about the variant. 
To prevent the further spread of the “dangerous Omicron variant,” Feinstein has a plan for her constituents to follow. “I can’t stress enough the need to wear masks and avoid large public gatherings as this disease once again surges,” she stated. “It’s critical that we continue to follow public health guidelines, which we know help limit transmission of this disease.”
Interestingly, Feinstein is telling this to people who live in California, a state with one of the strictest mask policies in the country. Gov. Gavin Newsom (D-CA) <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/california-to-reimpose-statewide-indoor-mask-mandate-18-omicron-cases-detected">reimposed</a> an indoor mask mandate on December 15 in response to Omicron showing up in the U.S. “The new mask mandate is set to take effect on Wednesday and will expire on Jan. 15. It will apply to everyone, regardless of vaccination status,” Fox News reported.
Feinstein’s call for people to follow California’s mask mandate comes just after CNN’s medical expert, Dr. Leana Wen, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/cnn-medical-expert-doubles-down-that-cloth-masks-were-never-appropriate-for-covid-19">said for a second time</a> that “cloth masks are not appropriate for this pandemic.” Wen went on to claim that anyone wearing a mask should be wearing 3-ply surgical masks or N-95, K-N95, or KF94 respirator masks.
“If our country and different jurisdictions are going to go as far as to mandate masks in some settings, let’s at least wear the most effective masks,” Wen stressed. “I’m not saying don’t wear a face-covering at all, I’m just saying if we’re going to do it, do it the right way and really use it in the way that it’s intended to prevent us from spreading and acquiring COVID-19.”
Feinstein also used this as an opportunity to command the unvaccinated to act now. “For those who haven’t been vaccinated or received a booster shot, the time to act is now. With the rapid increase in cases, the potential to become infected and further spread the omicron variant is incredibly high. Two-thirds of Californians are fully vaccinated, but that number needs to rise,” she added.
Of course, Feinstein couldn’t end her address on Omicron without threatening her constituents with the possibility that deaths due to the strain could “easily skyrocket in coming weeks.” 
“Around 50 Californians are dying every day from Covid-19,” she said. “While that number is a fraction of the more than 500 daily deaths at the peak of this disease, it’s still far too many. And the number could easily skyrocket in coming weeks if precautions aren’t followed.”
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Although Hunter Biden’s laptop has led millions of Americans to question Joe Biden’s integrity, the president is far from the only politician listed as a potential target for the Bidens’ influence-peddling operation, according to an investigative journalist familiar with the laptop’s contents. Biden’s associates bragged about their close relationship with “senior political figures” in the U.S. and foreign “oligarchs,” including current Vice President Kamala Harris, California Governor Gavin Newsom (D), and many others. Democratic Party royalty on both coasts find their names dropped during the Biden family’s business deals with foreign nations, she says.
And, she charges, when Hunter’s foreign business contacts demanded a list of “deliverables,” then-Vice President Joe Biden sprang into action.
The explosive revelations come from the book <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Laptop-Hell-Hunter-Secrets-President/dp/163758105X">Laptop from Hell: Hunter Biden, Big Tech, and the Dirty Secrets the President Tried to Hide</a>, written by <a href="https://nypost.com/author/miranda-devine/">New York Post columnist</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/mirandadevine">Miranda Devine</a>.
Former Biden business partner Tony Bobulinski tried to hammer out a $10 million deal between the China Energy Fund Committee (CEFC) — which was led by an intimate associate of Chinese President Xi Jinping — and the company he and Hunter formed, SinoHawk.
In return for the Chinese agreeing to put up the Americans’ half of the $10 million investment capital, Bobulinski promised that he and Hunter Biden would produce “strong and easily definable relationship[s] between our key U.S. executive(s) and their relations in the target country with the following persons: a. senior political figures; b. royal family and/or aristocracy if they exist; c. dominant commercial/business figures and/or oligarchs.”
Then, Bobulinski named names. A document related to the CEFC deal, titled “Key domestic contacts for phase one target projects,” includes “Democratic luminaries from around the country, including New York Governor Andrew Cuomo and Senators Chuck Schumer and Kirsten Gillibrand. California Senators Dianne Feinstein and Kamala Harris are listed,” writes Devine. The document describes Newsom, who was then mayor of San Francisco, as “Hunter’s friend.”
Previous foreign business deals show how far Hunter Biden was willing to go to please his investors, Devine writes — especially his relationship with the owner of Burisma, Mykola Zlochevsky, who paid Hunter $83,333 a month during Joe Biden’s tenure as Barack Obama’s vice president. As a Ukrainian investigation into Burisma heated up in 2015, the company ratcheted up pressure on the Bidens.
Burisma demanded Hunter Biden sign off on “a list of deliverables&#8230;a concrete course of actions, incl. meetings/communications resulting in high-ranking US officials in Ukraine (US Ambassador) and in US publicly or in private communication/comment expressing their ‘positive opinion’ and support of Nikolay [Zlochevsky]/Burisma to the highest level of decision makers here in Ukraine: President of Ukraine, president Chief of staff, Prosecutor General, etc,” wrote Zlochevsky’s lieutenant, Vadym Pozharskyi, in an email on November 2, 2015.
He insisted the “scope of work should also include organization of a visit of a number of widely recognized and influential current and/or former US policy-makers to Ukraine … with the ultimate purpose to close down any cases/pursuits against [Burisma] in Ukraine.”
Faced with an ultimatum, Hunter delivered. Devine writes:
<blockquote>The following month, [then-Vice President] Joe [Biden] flew to Kyiv and again addressed the Ukrainian parliament on December 8, 2015. He slammed the “cancer of corruption” in the country and declared: “The Office of the General Prosecutor desperately needs reform.” </blockquote>
With such a history, Bobulinski’s pitch implies the Chinese will receive powerful advocacy, but the laptop shows that they already had. Jim Biden wrote to <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/the-fall-of-andrew-cuomo-how-an-empire-built-on-fear-came-crashing-down">then-New York Governor Andrew Cuomo</a> (D) to set up a meeting with Hunter and CEFC Executive Director Zang Jianjun. Jim also arranged for Zang’s daughter, Rouqui, to receive prompt admission to New York City’s Horace Mann School, an elite private school. (She opts against attending.)
Aside from domestic Democrats, Hunter Biden also appears willing to milk his connections with foreign political leaders around the world, Devine writes:
<blockquote>Also cited [in the CEFC documents] are “foreign friends” who can be tapped for Belt and Road development projects. They include Colombia’s president, Juan Manuel Santos; Argentina’s president, Mauricio Macri; Ireland’s taoiseach (prime minister), Enda Kenny; and the richest man in India, Mukesh Ambani. 
Mexican billionaire Carlos Slim is listed as “very friendly.” </blockquote>
The document also says that SinoHawk’s partners had already “engaged in-country contacts” in Argentina, Belgium, France, Mexico, and the United Arab Emirates, according to the book.
Zang will ultimately sign the $10 million contract that Bobulinski sends on Biden’s behalf. But CEFC does not fund SinoHawk, as Hunter Biden will step in to offer a side deal that ultimately <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/exclusive-hunter-bidens-allegedly-lucrative-arrangement-with-china-energy-fund-committee">diverts nearly $6 million</a> into the pockets of himself and his uncle, Jim Biden.
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A coalition of 69 progressive organizations in California sent a letter to Democratic Senator Dianne Feinstein demanding that she take steps to pass Democratic-backed legislation to overhaul the voting system, including abolishing or carving out the legislative filibuster or resign from the Senate. 
“We, the 69 undersigned advocacy, civic, and environmental groups in California representing over 150,000 of your constituents, ask that you, publicly and by the end of November, call for the swift passage of the Freedom to Vote Act and the John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act,” the <a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/1EPH0PIFX0UrfHb2QXuu3JH0IGcuzVmVpBQWtE80vjHI/edit">letter</a> states. “We further ask that you clearly and unequivocally call for abolishing or providing a voting rights exception to the Senate filibuster, which is being used to block consideration of both bills.” 
“If you are unwilling to take these steps to protect our democracy, we ask that you resign and allow Governor Newsom to appoint a successor who is willing and able to fight for the survival of our country.”
The groups argued that voter integrity legislation passed by states like <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/texas-senate-passes-voter-integrity-bill-as-democrats-flee-state-to-subvert-democracy">Texas</a>, Georgia, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/arizona-gop-advances-two-election-integrity-bills">Arizona</a>, and <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/kansas-legislature-rallies-around-election-integrity-reforms-overrides-democratic-governors-veto">others</a>, would “obstruct people’s right to vote, will allow the intimidation of voters,” “gerrymander districts in order that politicians may choose their voters rather than being chosen by them,” and “give Republicans the ability to reject election results they don’t like.” They also said that voter integrity legislation is “being accompanied by a purge of responsible election officials nationwide and by the deliberate escalation of violence meant to intimidate officials, from school boards to state houses.” On top of that, they argued, was the “Big Lie,” former President Donald Trump’s assertion that the 2020 election was rigged.
“The sum of these efforts puts the survival of our nation as a democracy in extreme peril,” the groups said.
The groups expressed gratitude that Feinstein co-sponsored H.R.1/S.1, the federal election legislation that would have vastly expanded voter registration and federalized Presidential and Congressional Elections, which failed in the Senate after a Republican filibuster. The groups blamed Republicans for preventing the passage of H.R.1, and its successor bills, the “Freedom to Vote Act” and the “John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act.” They argued that Republican gerrymandering has “ensured that Democrats will be mathematically prohibited from winning elections, even when their total number of votes cast statewide far exceeds that of their opponents.”
“We are headed toward permanent minority rule over much of the country and therefore over Congress and the presidency – a minority rule which will make a mockery of the idea that citizens have the right to determine how they are governed,” the groups said.
The letter then turned to its central contention: abolishing the legislative filibuster. The groups conceded that Feinstein could not swing the votes in favor of the bills by herself, but argued that she, as the “most senior Democrat in the Senate,” could swing the votes of moderate Democratic Senators. 
 The groups then issued a desperate warning. “President Biden was right when he described this as our greatest challenge since the Civil War – our survival as a nation depends on it,” they wrote. “And we are out of time. If the New Year arrives without voting rights protected, all will be lost.”
“Senator Feinstein, we need you to step up, now,” the groups concluded, reiterating their demand for Feinstein to call for the passage of the bills, and for the Senator “to clearly and unequivocally call for abolishing or providing a voting rights exception to the Senate filibuster so that this may be accomplished.”
“We need you to step up and fight for our democracy and for the United States of America,” the groups wrote. “If you can’t or won’t, please step aside so that someone more willing can take your place.”
Abolishing the legislative filibuster faces more hurdles than just Feinstein. Moderate Democrats, especially West Virginia Senator <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/manchin-shoots-down-democrats-talks-of-changing-filibuster-for-debt-ceiling-vote">Joe Manchin</a> and Arizona Senator <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/kyrsten-sinema-responds-to-critics-filibuster-support-is-based-on-what-is-best-for-our-democracy">Kyrsten Sinema</a> have both said on multiple occasions that they strongly oppose abolishing or amending the legislative filibuster for any reason.
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Senate Lawmakers Address The Media After Their Weekly Policy Luncheons

Progressive Groups Demand Feinstein Help Pass Democratic Election Bills Or Resign

California

Filibuster

Youth climate activists with the Sunrise Movement slept outside California Democratic Senator Dianne Feinstein’s office in Los Angeles on Tuesday night and say they aren’t leaving until she meets their demands.
Sunrise Movement LA describes itself as an organization of “young people fighting for a Green New Deal, a livable future, and good sustainable jobs for all Angelenos.” It is affiliated with other activist groups in the region that organize against law enforcement agencies and advocate for the homeless population.
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Good night Senator <a href="https://twitter.com/DianneFeinstein?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@DianneFeinstein</a> <a href="https://t.co/uaPxrDwmb7">pic.twitter.com/uaPxrDwmb7</a>
&mdash; Sunrise L.A. Youth 🌅 (@SunriseLAYouth) <a href="https://twitter.com/SunriseLAYouth/status/1415202167514820609?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 14, 2021</a></blockquote>
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FOX News <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/climate-change-dianne-feinstein-office-sunrise-movement-protest">reported</a> that the group wants an infrastructure bill making its way through Congress to “include $10 trillion in climate spending over the next 10 years and a government-funded ‘Civilian Climate Corps.’” The Sunrise Movement <a href="https://www.sunrisemovement.org/theory-of-change/the-ccc-explained/">describes</a> CCC as “a visionary policy that would create a government jobs program putting a new generation of Americans to work combatting the climate crisis.” Organizers are also demanding a meeting with Feinstein, alleging she has “refused to meet with us.”
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It’s been 24 hours and WE’RE 🗣 STILL 🗣 HERE 🗣<a href="https://twitter.com/SenFeinstein?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@SenFeinstein</a> you ready to meet our demands? <a href="https://t.co/x9iFnLGVv2">pic.twitter.com/x9iFnLGVv2</a>
&mdash; Sunrise L.A. Youth 🌅 (@SunriseLAYouth) <a href="https://twitter.com/SunriseLAYouth/status/1415376213762211844?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 14, 2021</a></blockquote>
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The activist group <a href="https://twitter.com/sunrisemvmt/status/1099168970169569281">accused</a> Feinstein of having a “dismissive attitude” in 2019 after several schoolchildren and parents from the Sunrise Movement showed up at her San Francisco office to confront the senator about her unwillingness to support the Green New Deal. Video of the exchange went viral.
“You know what’s interesting about this group?” Feinstein said at the time. “I’ve been doing this for 30 years. I know what I’m doing. You come in here and you say it has to be my way or the highway. I don’t respond to that.”
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This is how <a href="https://twitter.com/SenFeinstein?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@SenFeinstein</a> reacted to children asking her to support the <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/GreenNewDeal?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#GreenNewDeal</a> resolution &#8212; with smugness + disrespect.
This is a fight for our generation&#39;s survival. Her reaction is why young people desperately want new leadership in Congress. <a href="https://t.co/0zAkaxruMI">pic.twitter.com/0zAkaxruMI</a>
&mdash; Sunrise Movement 🌅 (@sunrisemvmt) <a href="https://twitter.com/sunrisemvmt/status/1099075460649107458?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 22, 2019</a></blockquote>
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While the activists outside of Feinstein’s L.A. office on Tuesday and Wednesday appear to be older than the children who confronted her two years ago, the group&#8217;s message has not wavered. The Sunrise L.A. Youth branch claims to be “building an army” of young people to organize locally. They say Feinstein, 88, is complicit in causing climate change and has “enabled fossil fuel corporations to pollute neighborhoods.” Sunrise Movement activists <a href="https://twitter.com/SunriseMvmtLA/status/1415138701949095938">referenced</a> “elderly elected officials” who they say “are allowing young people to spend their youth lobbying those in power to fight for a livable planet.”
“We want green jobs,” <a href="https://twitter.com/SunriseLAYouth/status/1415384919983804417">said</a> a Sunrise L.A. Youth activist identified as Sara. “Our children, and our children’s children, deserve to live in a world that is clean. A world where they aren’t constantly gasping for breathable air. It’s sad that I, a 15-year-old, have to be yelling at a nearly 90-year-old senator to do their job. We are done waiting around for her to do something.”
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Amir is 14 years old, <a href="https://twitter.com/SenFeinstein?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@SenFeinstein</a> is 88.
Children are fighting for their futures and taking on a burden that they don’t deserve. <a href="https://t.co/mHnBY21BZ0">https://t.co/mHnBY21BZ0</a>
&mdash; Sunrise Movement LA 🌄 (@SunriseMvmtLA) <a href="https://twitter.com/SunriseMvmtLA/status/1415065042597253120?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 13, 2021</a></blockquote>
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Several allied progressives running for elected offices <a href="https://twitter.com/SunriseLAYouth/status/1415073065654833153">attended</a> the rallies, and others <a href="https://twitter.com/BryantOdegaLA/status/1415093890995032066">showed support</a> on social media.
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Honored to join <a href="https://twitter.com/SunriseMvmtLA?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@SunriseMvmtLA</a> today. <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/NoClimateNoDeal?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#NoClimateNoDeal</a> <a href="https://t.co/xcFDYRRjd7">https://t.co/xcFDYRRjd7</a>
&mdash; Fatima Iqbal-Zubair (@fatima4assembly) <a href="https://twitter.com/fatima4assembly/status/1415134445158342656?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 14, 2021</a></blockquote>
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According to FOX News, “Sunrise Movement, which is funded in part by a left-wing dark money network called The Sixteen Thirty Fund, is known for its aggressive tactics toward politicians,” and:
<blockquote>Last month, its activists dumped wildfire ashes on House Speaker Nancy Pelosi&#8217;s <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/protesters-dump-wildfire-ashes-pelosis-porch">front porch,</a> in addition to visiting Feinstein&#8217;s home, in order to ramp up pressure for its climate demands. 
Also last month, a Sunrise Movement demonstration outside Texas Sen. Ted Cruz&#8217;s home led to arrests after police said eight protesters <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/us/climate-change-protesters-arrested-ted-cruz-texas">trespassed onto Cruz&#8217;s property</a> and refused to leave. 
In 2020, the group <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/supreme-court-rbg-protests-lindsey-graham-mcconnell">organized protests</a> at the homes of Republican senators to pressure them against confirming the late Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg&#8217;s replacement. </blockquote>
On Wednesday, Washington Post reporter Jeff Stein said that <a href="https://twitter.com/JStein_WaPo/status/1415365167202938885">multiple sources</a> have confirmed funding for the Civilian Climate Corps is included in the Democrats’ $3.5 trillion reconciliation package.
“I don’t know the amount/scope,” Stein tweeted.
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Nominee For HHS Secretary Xavier Becerra Testifies Before Senate Committee

Youth Activists Who Lectured Dianne Feinstein In 2019 Are Back And Now They Say They Won’t Leave Until She Meets Demands

Climate Change

Sen. Dianne Feinstein’s (D-CA) sumptuous estate in Lake Tahoe, California, is now on the market for $41 million.
The nearly five-acre waterfront compound, which encompasses a main house and two guest houses, is listed under the LLC, Lucky Bluff, which is tied to Blum Capital, the investment management firm of Feinstein&#8217;s husband, Richard Blum, according to the <a href="https://nypost.com/2021/06/25/dianne-feinstein-lists-41m-lake-tahoe-estate/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">New York Post</a>.
&#8220;The second property, known as the Rubicon Pavilion, was created in 2015 for entertaining and includes a small kitchen and outside BBQ for al fresco dining. Pegged as a 5-star suite, the listing states this structure was designed for &#8216;special guests&#8217; and influenced by a Buddhist stupa. Floor-to-ceiling glass windows showcase the lake beyond the large stone patio with a fire pit,&#8221; according to the Post.
&#8220;The last property, the Carriage House, comes with a tandem four-car garage, EV charger, an upper two-bedroom, two-bath suite apartment and a lower two-bedroom, one-bathroom apartment off the patio, which the listing highlights as ‘perfect for an onsite caretaker,’” the Post continued. The outlet notes the property is being offered &#8220;mostly furnished.&#8221;
At 88, Feinstein is the nation&#8217;s oldest senator, having represented California for nearly three decades. In March, she became California&#8217;s longest-serving senator.
Feinstein and her husband came under scrutiny last year for the lucrative stock trades they made just before the COVID-19 pandemic tanked the economy, which prompted an investigation from federal authorities. As The Daily Wire <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/feinstein-questioned-by-law-enforcement-over-husbands-stock-activity" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">reported</a> in May 2020:
<blockquote>Federal law enforcement officials have questioned Senator Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) over stock trades Richard Blum, the senator’s husband, made ahead of the coronavirus market crash. The senator’s husband <a href="http://barrons.com/articles/sen-dianne-feinsteins-husband-sold-a-biotech-stock-near-its-2020-low-51583064907">reportedly</a> sold between $1.5 million and $6 million in biotech stock from January 31 to February 18.
Tom Mentzer, a spokesperson for Feinstein, told <a href="https://www.sfchronicle.com/politics/article/Dianne-Feinstein-questioned-about-husband-s-15270295.php">the San Francisco Chronicle</a> on Thursday that the California senator turned over documents that show she wasn’t involved in her husband’s stock trades, and “voluntarily” answered “questions to set the record straight.”
The spokesperson told <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/19/us/politics/richard-burr-stocks-sold-coronavirus.html">The New York Times</a> in mid-March, after reports emerged that four senators sold stocks before the market tanked, that Feinstein’s assets are in a blind trust. Feinstein tweeted on March 20 that her assets have been in a blind trust throughout her senate career, which began in 1992.
Allogene Therapeutics, the biotech company whose shares her husband traded, closed at $21.72 per share on January 31 and $24.25 on February 18. The company is currently trading at $42.55 per share.</blockquote>
Earlier this year, Feinstein said she would be willing to pay a fine for not properly disclosing other stocks her husband bought. As The Daily Wire <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/report-feinstein-willing-to-pay-fine-for-not-properly-disclosing-husbands-stock-buy" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">reported</a>:
<blockquote>According to <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/dianne-feinstein-senate-california-stock-purchase-disclosure-2021-1">Business Insider</a>, Richard Blum, Feinstein’s husband of over forty years, purchased up to $50,000 worth of shares in The Generation Lab. The company, which was known as College Reaction at the time Blum made his purchase, is a Washington, D.C.-based polling and research firm that studies trends and young people.
Feinstein reportedly told the secretary of the Senate in a letter in early January that her husband’s investment should have been reported weeks prior. According to Business Insider, Feinstein is willing to pay any fines, but has not been contacted about doing so.</blockquote>
Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/feinstein-questioned-by-law-enforcement-over-husbands-stock-activity" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Feinstein Questioned By Law Enforcement Over Husband’s Stock Activity</a>
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Sen. Dianne Feinstein’s Sprawling Lake Tahoe Estate On Market For $41M

Senator Dianne Feinstein (D-CA), 87, said Wednesday afternoon that she believes her husband is interested in serving in an ambassadorship position in the Biden administration but emphasized that she doesn’t plan to resign from the Senate regardless of those plans.
After The New York Times reported Feinstein&#8217;s husband, Richard Blum, was interested in serving as an ambassador, CNN reporter Manu Raju <a href="https://twitter.com/mkraju/status/1372230791846068232">asked</a> Feinstein whether she was involved in any appointment discussions concerning her husband. She responded: “No, no, no.” The Democratic lawmaker also said “no” to whether an ambassadorship role for her husband would hasten her retirement as California’s senior-most senator.
Blum is reportedly seeking an ambassadorship position somewhere in Europe, and The New York Times, citing White House aides, reports that Biden would be open to giving him such an appointment. Furthermore, the Times suggests that such an appointment could provide an avenue to address &#8220;an increasingly awkward problem for Democrats,&#8221; a vague description that makes it unclear whether the problem is Feinstein, the ongoing debate around Feinstein, or Feinstein&#8217;s political future itself.
From <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/16/us/politics/dianne-feinstein-biden.html">The New York Times</a>:
<blockquote>Senior party officials have been blunt in private about what they describe as the senator’s diminished acuity and are eager to replace her with a Black woman, of which there are none in the Senate after the departure of Vice President Kamala Harris.
Progressive Democrats have also suggested that Ms. Feinstein’s decorous approach was ill-suited for dealing with the increasingly acrimonious partisan politics in Congress. They were particularly upset during the Supreme Court confirmation hearings of Justice Amy Coney Barrett last fall when Ms. Feinstein praised the way Republicans had handled the hearings. Soon afterward, Mr. Schumer and other Democrats persuaded her not to seek the leadership role on the Judiciary Committee.</blockquote>
California Governor Gavin Newsom (D-CA), who recently appointed Alex Padilla to make the transition from secretary of state to U.S. senator, promised Monday that he was looking to appoint a black woman to replace Feinstein if another Senate vacancy were to open up.
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.<a href="https://twitter.com/JoyAnnReid?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@joyannreid</a>: &#8220;If Dianne Feinstein were to retire, will you nominate an African American woman to restore the seat that Kamala Harris is no longer in the Senate? And do you have a name in mind?&#8221;<a href="https://twitter.com/GavinNewsom?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@gavinnewsom</a>: &#8220;We have multiple names in mind, the answer is yes.&#8221;<a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/TheReidOut?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#TheReidOut</a> <a href="https://t.co/SrQ5iGKeNM">pic.twitter.com/SrQ5iGKeNM</a>
— The ReidOut (@thereidout) <a href="https://twitter.com/thereidout/status/1371607946774384649?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 15, 2021</a></blockquote>
According to <a href="https://www.sfchronicle.com/politics/article/Feinstein-not-worried-about-Newsom-s-plans-for-16029999.php">The San Francisco Chronicle</a>, Feinstein told reporters at the Capitol on Tuesday that she believed people were “making a mountain out of a molehill,” and that her relationship with Newsom remains “good and strong.” Newsom, who is the subject of an ongoing gubernatorial recall effort, has since called his remarks “hypothetical&#8221; and said he expects Feinstein to serve for years and years to come.
“She’s a magnificent and extraordinary person, and I think there’s been a little too much punditry around her current term. I think we all would do a lot better if we move away from it,” remarked Newsom.
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Feinstein Says She Won’t Step Down Early If Husband Tapped For Ambassadorship

California Senator Dianne Feinstein (D-CA), 87, is reportedly willing to pay a fine after federal forms she submitted failed to disclose shares her husband purchased in a polling firm.
According to <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/dianne-feinstein-senate-california-stock-purchase-disclosure-2021-1">Business Insider</a>, Richard Blum, Feinstein’s husband of over forty years, purchased up to $50,000 worth of shares in The Generation Lab. The company, which was known as College Reaction at the time Blum made his purchase, is a Washington, D.C.-based polling and research firm that studies trends and young people.
Feinstein reportedly told the secretary of the Senate in a letter in early January that her husband’s investment should have been reported weeks prior. According to Business Insider, Feinstein is willing to pay any fines but has not been contacted about doing so.
A spokesperson for Feinstein told <a href="https://www.foxbusiness.com/politics/feinstein-fine-after-disclose-stock-purchase">Fox Business</a> that the senator first became aware of Blum’s investment in The Generation Lab when his employer conducted a review of his transactions. The investment was reported upon discovery, said the spokesperson.
“We can’t speak to why it had been previously overlooked but have been assured that personnel involved in her husband’s transactions are aware of the reporting requirements,” Feinstein’s spokesperson told Fox Business in a statement.
Blum’s decisions have put Feinstein in the spotlight on other occasions.
Back in the first half of 2020, Feinstein <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/feinstein-questioned-by-law-enforcement-over-husbands-stock-activity">was questioned by federal law enforcement</a> officials in connection with Blum’s decision to sell between $1.5 million and $6 million in biotechnology stock between January 31 and February 18.
Her office described the questioning as “voluntary,” and said that she also provided documents to show that she has no role in her husband’s finances. In March, she said that all of her own assets have been in a blind trust throughout her Senate career.
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Under Senate rules I report my husband&#8217;s financial transactions. I have no input into his decisions. My husband in January and February sold shares of a cancer therapy company. This company is unrelated to any work on the coronavirus and the sale was unrelated to the situation.
— Senator Dianne Feinstein (@SenFeinstein) <a href="https://twitter.com/SenFeinstein/status/1241010797733728256?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 20, 2020</a></blockquote>
After the college admissions scandal, the California Auditor’s Office reviewed practices at the University of California and found that a UC Regent — later identified as Blum — wrote an “inappropriate letter of support” for a student. According to the auditor’s office, which deemed the case “particularly problematic,” the student appeared to have been admitted to UC Berkeley because of the letter of support from the regent.
Although the audit didn’t mention Blum by name, he later admitted to writing the letter, and to writing other such letters “a bunch of times” for different people over the years, the <a href="https://www.mercurynews.com/2020/09/24/uc-regent-who-helped-unqualified-student-get-into-cal-identified-as-richard-blum-husband-of-sen-dianne-feinstein/">Mercury News</a> reported.
“My cousin’s brother wanted to get into Davis,” Blum, who has been a UC regent since 2002, told the <a href="https://www.sfchronicle.com/education/article/UC-Regent-Richard-Blum-named-in-admissions-15594754.php">San Francisco Chronicle</a>. “They’d send me a letter and tell me why it’s a good kid, and I’ll send it on to the chancellor. Been doing it forever.”
“I’m not convinced I’ve done anything wrong. It all sounds kinda boring to me,” said Blum.
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Report: Feinstein Willing To Pay Fine For Not Properly Disclosing Husband’s Stock Buy

Tuesday night, the San Francisco School Board voted to accept the recommendations of a &#8220;renaming committee&#8221; and voted to officially rename 44 public schools bearing the names of “controversial” historical figures, including former Presidents Abraham Lincoln, George Washington, Theodore Roosevelt, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, and Herbert Hoover; Revolutionary War hero Paul Revere; inventor Thomas Edison; and longtime California Democratic Senator Dianne Feinstein.
San Francisco commissioned the renaming committee in October of 2019, and the school board announced they were putting the committee&#8217;s name change recommendations to<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/san-francisco-to-rename-schools-named-after-dianne-feinstein-abraham-lincoln"> a vote back in December</a>. At the time, the decision to rename the schools was not final. Tuesday&#8217;s vote made the 44 name changes official and set the committee&#8217;s recommendations into motion, <a href="https://www.nbcbayarea.com/news/local/san-francisco/san-francisco-board-of-education-votes-to-rename-44-schools/2452427/">according to NBC Bay Area</a>.
The 44 schools will now have until April to come up with new names, the outlet notes.
As the <a href="https://freebeacon.com/latest-news/san-francisco-public-schools-to-consider-renaming-school-named-after-feinstein/">Washington Free Beacon pointed out</a> in December, some of the &#8220;controversial&#8221; names are considered controversial for strange reasons. Feinstein, for example, ran afoul of the committee for an incident involving a Confederate Flag, but it&#8217;s not clear Feinstein was involved in the incident at all.
“According to a 1984 copy of Workers Vanguard, ‘Dixie’ Feinstein raised a Confederate flag at San Francisco’s Civic Center while she was mayor of the city, and later replaced the flag after it was pulled down by protesters,” the Free Beacon noted. “This allegation led the school board to include the elementary school bearing Feinstein’s name.”
&#8220;The San Francisco Chronicle echoed the allegations, but according to SF Bay View, a progressive alternative Bay Area paper that fact-checked the allegations, although the Confederate flag did appear in front of San Francisco’s Civic Center as part of a display of &#8216;historical flags&#8217; (and was, indeed, pulled down by protesters and later replaced), it’s not clear Feinstein had anything to do with the incident. The blame more likely rests with an aide in the city’s Recreation and Parks Department,&#8221; The Daily Wire reported in December.
Abraham Lincoln ran afoul of the committee despite his role in ending the practice of slavery in the United States because he &#8220;did not demonstrate that ‘black lives mattered to him.'&#8221;
“Lincoln, like the presidents before him and most after, did not show through policy or rhetoric that black lives ever mattered to them outside of human capital and as casualties of wealth building,” the committee noted, adding that Lincoln was also no friend to Native Americans and that Lincoln&#8217;s considerable achievements did not wash away his sins.
Not everyone is on board with the renaming process, however.
&#8220;Many San Francisco parents — as well as Mayor London Breed — argued the effort was ill-timed given the pandemic and the impact on children, especially students of color, and the fact that students are not even in the schools subject to renaming,&#8221; according to the <a href="https://www.sfchronicle.com/education/article/Washington-and-Lincoln-are-out-S-F-school-board-15900963.php">San Francisco Chronicle</a>. &#8220;Some criticized the board Tuesday for focusing on symbolism rather than the urgent reality facing struggling students, who are approaching a year in distance learning, with many struggling academically, socially, and emotionally.&#8221;
The move is also likely to cost San Francisco&#8217;s school district millions.
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San Francisco School Board Votes To Rename Schools Named After Dianne Feinstein, Abraham Lincoln, George Washington

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Democratic Sen. Dianne Feinstein (CA) veered from some of her colleagues on Tuesday, telling reporters that Republican Sens. Ted Cruz (TX) and Josh Hawley (MO) should not be called on to resign or be expelled from the Senate, noting that the Senate should be a place for &#8220;freedom&#8221; and for members to provide &#8220;a kind of leadership.&#8221;
Other members of Congress, like radical left-wing Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, have &#8220;<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/i-have-demanded-the-resignations-of-cruz-hawley-mccarthy-ocasio-cortez?%3Futm_source=facebook&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_campaign=boycott">demanded</a>&#8221; the resignations of Cruz, Hawley, and GOP House Minority leader Kevin McCarthy.
&#8220;I think the Senate is a place of freedom. And people come here to speak their piece, and they do, and they provide a kind of leadership,&#8221; Feinstein reportedly told journalists at the Capitol on Tuesday, according to the <a href="https://www.sfchronicle.com/politics/article/Dianne-Feinstein-defends-GOP-senators-right-to-15882248.php">San Francisco Chronicle</a>.
&#8220;In some cases, it’s positive, in some cases, maybe not. A lot of that depends on who’s looking and what party they are,&#8221; she continued.
&#8220;But it’s an important place to have this kind of dialogue,&#8221; the Democrat underscored. &#8220;It’s probably the highest-level dialogue that you get in an electoral body.”
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Dem <a href="https://twitter.com/SenFeinstein?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@SenFeinstein</a> doesn’t appear on board with punishing <a href="https://twitter.com/SenTedCruz?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@SenTedCruz</a> or <a href="https://twitter.com/HawleyMO?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@HawleyMO</a> for role in challenging electoral college. “I think the Senate is a place of freedom, and people come here to speak their peace”
&mdash; Erik Wasson (@elwasson) <a href="https://twitter.com/elwasson/status/1351553025605857281?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 19, 2021</a></blockquote>
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As <a href="https://www.sfgate.com/politics/article/Feinstein-defends-Hawley-Cruz-overturn-election-15882575.php">noted</a> by SFGate, Democratic Sens. Chris Coons, Patty Murray, and Sherrod Brown have also called for Cruz and Hawley&#8217;s resignations.
<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/i-have-demanded-the-resignations-of-cruz-hawley-mccarthy-ocasio-cortez?%3Futm_source=facebook&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_campaign=boycott">The Daily Wire</a> reported earlier this week that AOC, rumored to be <a href="https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/532501-ocasio-cortez-on-challenging-schumer-im-trying-to-decide-what-is-the-most">considering a run</a> for New York Senator Chuck Schumer’s seat, announced that she has issued a &#8220;demand” for Cruz, Hawley, and McCarthy&#8217;s resignations in the wake of an attack on the U.S. Capitol on January 6.
“What we saw last week was not just a violent coup attempt, but we also saw a dereliction of duty and a betrayal of our country and a betrayal of the oath that we swear,&#8221; the Democrat said. &#8220;And that is why I have demanded the resignations of senators (sic) Ted Cruz, senators (sic) Josh Hawley, Majority Leader, Republican Major — rather, Republican Minority Leader in the House McCarthy, Kevon McCarthy, along with many others, because this is not just about political opinion or partisanship. This was about the abandonment of our sworn oath.”
“For what?” Ocasio-Cortez continued. “For personal ambition? For greater loyalty to a base?”
Unsurprisingly, Feinstein was attacked by leftists online for her comments about Cruz and Hawley:
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Once again, Dianne Feinstein is completely out of step with the people of California.<a href="https://twitter.com/SenTedCruz?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@SenTedCruz</a> and <a href="https://twitter.com/HawleyMO?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@HawleyMO</a> weren&#39;t &quot;speaking their piece&quot; &#8212; they were actively trying to undermine our democracy.
They should resign. <a href="https://t.co/tZ2XqbWx3B">https://t.co/tZ2XqbWx3B</a>
&mdash; Joe Sanberg (@JosephNSanberg) <a href="https://twitter.com/JosephNSanberg/status/1351591181646352385?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 19, 2021</a></blockquote>
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Inciting violence isn&#39;t &quot;speaking your piece&quot; and it sure isn&#39;t peaceful.
Maybe <a href="https://twitter.com/SenFeinstein?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@SenFeinstein</a> needs a primary challenger who will protect the future of our democracy. <a href="https://t.co/2EtQBJ4fbX">https://t.co/2EtQBJ4fbX</a>
&mdash; Elisa Cardnell (@ElisaCardnell) <a href="https://twitter.com/ElisaCardnell/status/1351609038153375746?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 19, 2021</a></blockquote>
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Senator Feinstein supports Senators Hawley &amp; Cruz getting a pass. 
She supported Lindsey Graham.
She does not support Medicare For All or Green New Deal.
California once recalled a bad Governor &amp; elected a Governator.
It’s time to recall DINOsaur Feinstein. <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/FeinsteinResign?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#FeinsteinResign</a> <a href="https://t.co/igo5Efarg9">https://t.co/igo5Efarg9</a>
&mdash; Jen Perelman (@JENFL23) <a href="https://twitter.com/JENFL23/status/1351614175785717762?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 19, 2021</a></blockquote>
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In October, the Democrat was torn apart by leftists for appearing conciliatory toward Trump-picked Justice Amy Coney Barrett during her confirmation hearing to the Supreme Court. <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/dems-fire-back-at-dianne-feinstein-for-softball-questions-to-amy-coney-barrett">The Daily Wire</a> reported at the time:
<blockquote>A reporter with Slate panicked over Feinstein’s “softballs.”
&#8220;Why is Dianne Feinstein tossing softballs to Amy Coney Barrett?” he railed. “Why did she ask a string of questions that Barrett could easily avoid answering? Why is she treating this confirmation process like it’s totally normal and legitimate? Is she trying to help Barrett get confirmed?”
One Dem strategist even went so far as to demand Feinstein be removed from office.
“I get deference to senior party leaders,” he tweeted. “But, not with this, or almost anything at this moment. She’s proven in many ways she’s not up to the moment; doesn’t understand the stakes; and I’m sorry, must be put on the bench for the good of democracy. Like, NOW.”</blockquote>
Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/i-have-demanded-the-resignations-of-cruz-hawley-mccarthy-ocasio-cortez?%3Futm_source=facebook&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_campaign=boycott">‘I Have Demanded The Resignations’ Of Cruz, Hawley, McCarthy: Ocasio-Cortez</a>
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