Why people want Dianne Feinstein to resignstein

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25. Absolutely false framed. There has been no "flat line" period where judges aren't being confirmed

The Vox video shows a flat line suggesting no new judges are being confirmed, but to the extent there has been such a period during Feinstein's absence, it was during the roughly three weeks the Senate was in recess -- and if VOX didn't know that, they're absurdly ignorant, and if they did know it, they're simply dishonest hacks.

Since the 118th Congress took office in January, 23 judges have been confirmed (including one yesterday). Two more are probably going to be confirmed today. Fifteen of them have been confirmed since Feinstein became ill (a number that will grow to at least 17 by the end of the day). And eight judges have been approved by the Judiciary Committee during that time.

As pointed out in a separate post, keeping pace with Trump's nominations isn't dependent on Feinstein's presence -- it's dependent on Durbin deciding not to capitulate to republican "blue slip" objections even where Democrats have the votes to confirm, it's dependent on Schumer picking up the pace of bringing some of the 20+ nominations that already have committee approval to the floor for a vote (and with a 50-49 majority even with Feinstein unavailable, those are votes we can win), and it depends on President Biden moving to name nominees for the more than 30 vacancies for which no one has yet been nominated.