• Senator Dianne Feinstein is facing more calls from her own party to resign as the GOP confirms it will not support plans to temporarily replace the California Democrat on the Judiciary Committee while she recovers from illness.
• Feinstein, 89, was hospitalized with shingles in early March and has missed dozens of Senate votes in Washington D.C. while she recovers at her San Francisco home.
• The veteran Democrat has faced calls to step down as her absence from the Judiciary Committee has meant that the Senate cannot confirm some of President Joe Biden‘s judicial nominees.

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