Rep. Rashida Tlaib added her voice Friday to those of fellow Democrats demanding chronically absent Sen. Dianne Feinstein to give up her seat.
However, the octogenarian’s absence from the Senate Judiciary Committee has stalled Democrats’ efforts to confirm nominations by President Biden that are unable to get Republican support.
“I’m anxious because I can’t really have a mark-up of new judge nominees until she’s there,” Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Dick Durbin Tlaib’s demand that one of 10 Jewish senators leave office recalls her past history of provoking controversy with anti-Semitic remarks. defended claiming that she experienced a “calming feeling” when she spoke about the Holocaust because “it was my ancestors, Palestinians, who lost their land and some lost their lives, their livelihood, their human dignity, their existence in many ways, have been wiped out, and some people’s passports.”
Last year, she claimed Democrats “cannot claim to hold progressive values yet back Israel’s apartheid government” — drawing a rebuke from Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz , who
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