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[Otherbrother]

@anon33932455

This sucks for him, and his family. He’s very young. Meantime, Democrats lose the working majority in the Senate. Effect on SCOTUS nom?

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/02/01/sen-lujn-suffers-stroke-expected-make-full-recovery-his-office-says/

Yeah, this is exactly the kind of scenario I was ranting about just a few days ago when Feinstein said they had plenty of time to do the Supreme Court confirmation hearings.

Justice Stephen Breyer plans to retire from Supreme Court

Dammit, we absolutely can’t assume that we’ve got 6 months available for this. We’ve got a whole lot of Democratic senators over 70, and Feinstein herself is 88 years old. If you are just going by actuarial tables the odds of someone in that group dropping dead over a 6 month period and flipping control of the Senate are way too high for comfort. We damn well better act like we’re running out of time.