{"id":1926230,"date":"2023-05-07T14:43:18","date_gmt":"2023-05-07T18:43:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/new-york-times-editorial-board-calls-for-dianne-feinsteins-resignation\/"},"modified":"2023-05-07T14:45:47","modified_gmt":"2023-05-07T18:45:47","slug":"new-york-times-editorial-board-calls-for-dianne-feinsteins-resignation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/new-york-times-editorial-board-calls-for-dianne-feinsteins-resignation\/","title":{"rendered":"NYT Editorial Board wants Feinstein to step down."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">16<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fnew-york-times-editorial-board-calls-for-dianne-feinsteins-resignation%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1926230&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><h2>Should Sen. Dianne Feinstein Resign?<\/h2>\n<p>The New York Times editorial board has called for Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) to resign and turn over her responsibilities to an appointed successor. While acknowledging her distinguished career in the Senate, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/washington-post-claims-republicans-treated-judge-jackson-worse-than-democrats-treated-kavanaugh\/\" title=\"Washington Post Claims Republicans Treated Judge Jackson Worse Than Democrats Treated Kavanaugh\">editorial <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/hillary-clintons-nonprofit-funneled-75k-to-defund-the-police-group\/\" title=\"Hillary Clinton's Nonprofit Funneled k to \"Defund the Police\" Group\">board argues<\/a><\/a> that her absence from work since early 2023 due to hospitalization with shingles has resulted in her missing more than 90 votes and giving Republicans on the Senate Judiciary Committee the ability to stall some of President Joe Biden\u2019s court nominees.<\/p>\n<h3>Is It Time for a Change?<\/h3>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/new-york-times-editorial-board-calls-for-dianne-feinsteins-resignation\/\" title=\"NYT Editorial Board wants Feinstein to step down.\">editorial board suggests<\/a> that if Sen. Feinstein cannot fulfill her obligations to the Senate and her constituents, she should resign. The board also points to a report from last year in the San Francisco Chronicle that revealed her memory has deteriorated to the point where she can no longer fulfill her job duties. While some have called past calls for her resignation &#8220;sexist,&#8221; the board argues that senators have a primary and inescapable duty to show up and vote.<\/p>\n<h3>What&#8217;s Next?<\/h3>\n<p>Sen. Feinstein has not indicated when she will return to the Senate, defending her absence and claiming there has been &#8220;no slowdown&#8221; of judicial nominees while she is slowly recovering. However, the editorial board argues that Senate seats are not lifetime sinecures, and if members cannot effectively represent their constituents or work for the benefit of their country, they should turn the job over to someone who can. <\/p>\n<h3>Takeaways:<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Sen. Dianne Feinstein has been absent from work since early 2023 due to hospitalization with shingles.<\/li>\n<li>The New York Times editorial board has called for her resignation and for her to turn over her responsibilities to an appointed successor.<\/li>\n<li>The board argues that senators have a primary and inescapable duty to show up and vote.<\/li>\n<li>Sen. Feinstein has not indicated when she will return to the Senate.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>It remains to be seen whether Sen. Feinstein will heed the call to resign or continue to defend her absence. However, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/why-is-the-new-york-times-urging-america-to-buddy-up-with-communist-china\/\" title=\"Why Is The New York Times Urging America To Buddy Up With Communist China?\">editorial board&#8217;<\/a>s argument that senators have a primary and inescapable duty to show up and vote is a compelling one. It&#8217;s time for a change if members cannot effectively represent their constituents or work for the benefit of their country.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sen.\u00a0Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) has had a \u201cdistinguished career in the U.S. Senate,\u201d the New York Times\u00a0editorial board said on Friday, adding, however, that she \u201cshould resign and turn over her responsibilities to an appointed successor.\u201d The 89-year-old senator, planning to retire at the end of her current term, has been\u00a0absent from work since\u00a0early 2023 as<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1926231,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[547],"tags":[3664,4010,6616,9094,15823,5101],"class_list":["post-1926230","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-bongino-report","tag-board","tag-down","tag-editorial","tag-feinstein","tag-nyt","tag-step"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1926230","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1926230"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1926230\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1926231"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1926230"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1926230"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1926230"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}