Philip Bump
@pbump· May 16
The right was always going to declare victory from Durham's report; that's why he was appointed.
But the nature of it — claiming that … now there can be criminal charges? Bonkers.
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FTA in the Bump retweet:
But it is not true that she had been “here,” in a physical sense, for the two-and-a-half-month stretch between February and last week. It was odd for that to skip her mind. The senator’s absence, and her insistence on not resigning, has been one of the biggest political stories of the year, given her critical role not just on the Judiciary Committee but as a pivotal Democratic vote in the full body. (Feinstein’s office declined to comment.)
You either know or don’t know.
On Monday, I had asked another member of the committee, Connecticut Sen. Richard Blumenthal, whether there really was any optimism that Feinstein could return to being a fully functioning, contributing member of the committee like her old self.
“There’s one job that no one else can do for us, which is to vote,” Blumenthal said. “And she’s been doing that job in the last few days, and so far as I can tell, she’s been doing well.”
Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse, whom I asked separately, had a terser response: “I’m gonna leave that to the medics.”
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2023/05/dianne-feinstein-health-return-to-senate.html