Why are her husband and all her children

[Mossfern]

present behind her at the hearing?
Is this typical?

[58Sunliner]

1. Window dressing.

[Mossfern]

6. That doesn't help

with the issue of her making her own decisions.
I'm all for family but this, to me, is a distraction.

[phylny]

2. As a mother I'd never make my children sit through something

like this. What a terrible choice.

[dubyadiprecession]

11. Needlessly exposing them to that environment with covid in the air,is not smart!

[Ferrets are Cool]

3. Stepford mom?

Just sayin'

[dem4decades]

4. Why does Feinstein make her human by asking about the family. She's a monster.

[Mossfern]

9. Feinstein is just softening her up

by praising her family.

[Sanity Claws]

5. Why aren't the kids in school?

Is she turning them into truants?

[snowybirdie]

10. School closed

Covid outbreak.

[Sanity Claws]

13. But isn't there remote learning?

Many schools are closed physically but continue remote learning.

[dem4decades]

16. Maybe they should be in quarantine? Maybe they shouldn't have been at a super spreader.

[Rhiannon12866]

28. +100!

[DesertRat]

26. Schools in my area are closed this week for fall break. nt

[Ninga]

7. Family has always been seated behind those testifying - over the many years I have watched.

[Mossfern]

12. Thanks for that

even school age children?

[Ninga]

15. Yes.

[NameAlreadyTaken]

8. Because Daddy told her what to do.

[Frustratedlady]

14. The senators are less likely to ask her hard questions/make nasty comments.

She's using her kids as protection.

[Mossfern]

17. She refuses to answer definitively

to Feinstein's question regarding choice.
Feinstein is ripping her for that.

[TheBlackAdder]

18. One Hearing--That's the most cumulative time she's spent with them all year in the same room!

[Mike Nelson]

19. I think...

... it's become typical. In my opinion, family is being used as a prop, here. Sen. Feinstein was brilliant in praising and having her introduce the family, then asking her questions. Republicans have said Dems are attacking her family, which she slyly included in her opening statement. In truth, who cares about her family - what matters are her views.

[blueinredohio]

20. If she's that strict a Catholic she shouldn't believe in any kind of birth control.

[Newest Reality]

21. Ah,

Her cult is very much on the fringe of Catholicism and I think that needs more emphasis.

Disclaimer: I was raised Catholic and am now an apostate.

[Walleye]

22. Republicans call this "virtue signaling"

[phoenix_rising]

23. All six of her siblings are there too

[proud patriot]

27. Welcome Underground

Great book

[katmondoo]

24. Is she just using her two black children to show how wonderful she is?

[onenote]

25. Not that unusual. RBG probably holds the record for most family members present.

At the start of her testimony, RBG introduced, one by one, the following family members that were present for the occasion: her husband, her son and his girlfriend, her daughter, a nephew, her brother-in-law, her sister-in-law, her grandson and her granddaughter, her son-in-law, and a cousin. She also introduced one of her clerks and her grandchildren's au pair.

They didn't all stick around for the hearing after being introduced. I think just her husband and the grown children.