Feinstein returing gives Dems 11-10 edge on Judiciary Comm--they meet tomorrow........

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63. Please explain the disservice that was done?

Her absence didn't slow down the confirmation of judges. Indeed, during her absence, the full Senate confirmed 21 nominees -- more than had been confirmed in any comparable period of time during the Biden presidency.

And the Committee advanced eight nominees in her absence.

The major contributing factor to judges not being confirmed isn't that they've been held up in Committee. It's that Schumer allowed a backlog to develop of nominees that already were approved by the Committee even though the Democrats have a majority without Feinstein's vote. A further contributing factor is that there are 40 vacancies for which President Biden hasn't nominated anyone. Going into today's Judiciary Committee meeting, there were 16 nominees that hadn't been acted on by the Committee. Four of them were nominated last week and haven't had a hearing yet, a few others were nominated in March or April and are waiting for a hearing. There are a few that have been held up by blue slip objections from Republicans. And there are a couple that have been held up because there are objections from Democrats (for example, Michael Delaney ).

And another fact that you seem to be unaware of -- during the time Feinstein was absent, the Senate was only in session for 30 days.

So tell me, with specifics, what disservice was done?