Dianne Feinstein
The first woman to lead a key intelligence committee went toe-to-toe with the powerful intelligence agency — and the president. She won.
They've already shown they'll go to extremes to deny the president his court picks. Their new option would test how far they're willing to go.
"That was Dianne," recalled Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.). "Powerful. Prepared. Unflappable. She had to be: whenever she did something, she was often the 'first' to do it."
It's not clear yet which Democrat Newsom might pick, but he's pledged to elevate a Black woman to temporarily fill Feinstein's seat.
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Feinstein made history as San Francisco's first female mayor and as one of California’s first two female U.S. senators.
The California governor, though, said he would stick by his pledge to select a Black woman.
The nonagenarian senator is at odds with the trustees overseeing her late husband's estate.
The 90-year-old senator was absent from work for two months earlier this year.
The 90-year-old senator sailed into a speech when called on to vote during a Senate Appropriations Committee hearing.
The 1974 National League MVP confirmed that he "had been approached to run for office."