POL 90-Year-Old Dianne Feinstein Cedes Power Of Attorney To Daughter – But Remains In Senate

[Macgyver]

Old hag just won't die.

90-Year-Old Dianne Feinstein Cedes Power Of Attorney To Daughter – But Remains In Senate

Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) has handed over power of attorney to her daughter, even as she remains in the U.S. Senate.

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90-Year-Old Dianne Feinstein Cedes Power Of Attorney To Daughter – But Remains In Senate​

Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) has handed over power of attorney to her daughter, even as she remains in the U.S. Senate.
Feinstein has prompted concern if not outright alarm in recent years amid numerous mental lapses in the public eye. Earlier this year, she missed more than two months due to shingles. When she returned, a reporter asked Feinstein about her absence, but the senator’s response suggested she was unaware she had been away from Washington, D.C.

On Thursday, the New York Times reported that Feinstein, 90, gave power of attorney to her daughter Katherine Feinstein, 66. The Times said Katherine is currently engaged in a nasty legal dispute with the three daughters of her mother’s late husband Richard Blum, who died in 2022:

In one legal dispute, the family is fighting over what’s described as Senator Feinstein’s desire to sell a beach house in an exclusive neighborhood in Stinson Beach, north of San Francisco. In another disagreement, the two factions are at odds over access to the proceeds of Mr. Blum’s life insurance, which Senator Feinstein says she needs to pay for her growing medical expenses.
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Katherine Feinstein, 66, Senator Feinstein’s only child, who has power of attorney over her mother’s legal affairs, filed two lawsuits against Senator Feinstein’s co-trustees. The first lawsuit, over the beach house, says the property is in disrepair, that Senator Feinstein no longer wishes to use it, and that she wants to sell it this summer or fall.

Feinstein is not running for reelection in 2024, but she has rebuffed calls to resign from the Senate, which Democrats control 51 to 49. During her absence earlier this year, several of President Joe Biden’s judicial nominees stalled in the Judiciary Committee, as Feinstein was not present to cast tie-breaking votes.

In an Appropriations Committee hearing last week, Feinstein began speaking about a defense spending bill at a time when she was simply supposed to cast a vote for or against the legislation. “Just say aye,” a fellow senator instructed her.

In May, Rep. Ro Khanna (D-CA) said Feinstein’s struggles are “painful to watch” and called on her to resign.
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[TheHippie]

So is her senate vote "absent" until she is replaced?

 

[TKO]

Nothing but a bunch of Johnny Bravos in the SINate. They fit the suit. Don't have to do anything...the handlers will do it all.

 

[Squib]

I don’t really see what the big deal is, I mean she’ll likely even keep voting after she’s dead…just like millions of other Democrat voters!

Didn't one of the turn of the last century presidents stroke out in office and his wife managed (mismanaged) the office of POTUS until his term was over?

Was it Wilson?

 

[Buick Electra]

Has a POA ever been used in the senate before?

 

[Walrus Whisperer]

They just can't make themselves turn loose of all That power.

 

[momma_soapmaker]

How is it legal for someone to cede POA and still hold office?

 

[blueinterceptor]

It’s all about the funeral

 

[Griz3752]

Old hag just won't die.

90-Year-Old Dianne Feinstein Cedes Power Of Attorney To Daughter – But Remains In Senate

Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) has handed over power of attorney to her daughter, even as she remains in the U.S. Senate.

www.mediaite.com

90-Year-Old Dianne Feinstein Cedes Power Of Attorney To Daughter – But Remains In Senate​

Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) has handed over power of attorney to her daughter, even as she remains in the U.S. Senate.
Feinstein has prompted concern if not outright alarm in recent years amid numerous mental lapses in the public eye. Earlier this year, she missed more than two months due to shingles. When she returned, a reporter asked Feinstein about her absence, but the senator’s response suggested she was unaware she had been away from Washington, D.C.

On Thursday, the New York Times reported that Feinstein, 90, gave power of attorney to her daughter Katherine Feinstein, 66. The Times said Katherine is currently engaged in a nasty legal dispute with the three daughters of her mother’s late husband Richard Blum, who died in 2022:

Feinstein is not running for reelection in 2024, but she has rebuffed calls to resign from the Senate, which Democrats control 51 to 49. During her absence earlier this year, several of President Joe Biden’s judicial nominees stalled in the Judiciary Committee, as Feinstein was not present to cast tie-breaking votes.

In an Appropriations Committee hearing last week, Feinstein began speaking about a defense spending bill at a time when she was simply supposed to cast a vote for or against the legislation. “Just say aye,” a fellow senator instructed her.

In May, Rep. Ro Khanna (D-CA) said Feinstein’s struggles are “painful to watch” and called on her to resign.
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So she gets a conservator/trustee but who the hell protects the country?

I hope CA enjoys being stripped of their full senate representation - looks good on them

 

[Kathy in FL]

Just because someone has a POA doesn't mean they aren't still autonomous. I have a POA for my parents. My husband has one for me and me for him. It's there for just in case. A conservatorship is a completely different legal animal.

 

[Reasonable Rascal]

I don't believe that in this case the POA is for future possibility. Call it what they will I am pretty sure it is intended for present day use. They will merely hide how much the POA uses that authority.

RR

 

[TheSearcher]

Totally. Normal.

 

[Babs]

Good gravy!! Just DIE already!

 

[SAPPHIRE]

The whole cabal are mentally incompetent, demonic, ghouls/zombies who absolutely will not GO till they're carried out feet first............love to see many, many, OZ funerals...........

 

[mikeabn]

I don’t really see what the big deal is, I mean she’ll likely even keep voting after she’s dead…just like millions of other Democrat voters!

Didn't one of the turn of the last century presidents stroke out in office and his wife managed (mismanaged) the office of POTUS until his term was over?

Was it Wilson?

It was Wilson.

 

[crossbowboy]

Biden too...

 

[pauldingbabe]

Biden too...

Well damn! Dr. Jill is doing a bang up job.

Wonder if they have bets and or wagers on these folks? Someone needs to tell these conservatories it ain't a competition.

 

[Buick Electra]

 

[Griz3752]

Just because someone has a POA doesn't mean they aren't still autonomous. I have a POA for my parents. My husband has one for me and me for him. It's there for just in case. A conservatorship is a completely different legal animal.

I get that but neither of your parents or you and your husband have any input/vote on the path the Nation follows other than being tax-paying citizens,

I actually was saddened when I saw her being prompted on camera to "just vote".

Never ever cared for her or her politics but this is just more fuel to heat up a move for Mental capacity/acuity testing and term limits for all elected positions.

Of course I doubt the incumbents on either side would get behind such moves. While something like that would protect the citizenry, it could drastically shorten long-term professional politicians time at the troughs of government.

I would suggest the Senator from California is far from being fully autonomous.

Damn sure when that hapens to us, the radiated affects are limited by our own circles. In her case or the case of other Senators or a POTUS or 2, not so much.

 

[Blacknarwhal]

So does that mean Kathy gets to sell Momma's vote in the Senate, or does Dianne still make that deal?

 

[BadMedicine]

yeah this is one of those things that looks like news but isn't. No mention in the article of her blathering on, half asleep, half dead in chambers. No mentions of her ACTUAL DISQUALIFICATIONS.. but rather gives you something that SOUNDS like a disqualification but is really VERY status quo for elderly or infirm parents/ children/ sibling, spouses, etc.

Literally one has nothing to do with the other.. so they throw it out there for derision, while not poitning to the parts EVERYONE COULD AGREE ON...

Watch for intentional misdirection (of your thoughts, emotions/rage/ donations) by the media. Most of it, is.

 

[Leela]

oh well

 

[summerthyme]

Just because someone has a POA doesn't mean they aren't still autonomous. I have a POA for my parents. My husband has one for me and me for him. It's there for just in case. A conservatorship is a completely different legal animal.

True, but it's ALMOST ALWAYS the impetus for this legal move is the obvious degeneration of the thinking process of the person providing the POA. *Especially* if it's an adult child involved.

And given that Fineswine certainly has lawyers, accountants and secretaries/assistants doing her paperwork chores already, there are obviously more reasons than convenience to do this now.

Summerthyme

 

[ShadowMan]

Drizzle drazzel drazzel drone...time for this one to GO HOME!

 

[Dennis Olson]

I’ve said many times that the only way these f’kers would ever leave the halls of power would be toes up. I wasn’t joking.

 

[packyderms_wife]

How is it legal for someone to cede POA and still hold office?

Good question, I was wondering the same thing.

 

[BadMedicine]

True, but it's ALMOST ALWAYS the impetus for this legal move is the obvious degeneration of the thinking process of the person providing the POA. *Especially* if it's an adult child involved.

I wouldn't say more than half the time. POA's are cheap (free) and easy, no reason not to have one if you are elderly (over 50), infirm, planning to get surgery/undergo anesthesia, leaving the country or just have already lined up someone as "heir" or "guardian" of the estate & trust them.. good to have it in place early, like a will, or Trust. Never know when yyou'll be incapacitated and our "benevolent overlords" assigns you an "agent of the state" to oversee the distribution of your guns and gold... never get caught in that pickle! Sign a POA today!

 

[BadMedicine]

Good question, I was wondering the same thing.

POAs are specific to what the Granter decides. Often it's for one real estate deal, or one piece of property, or for medical decisions. This does not "cede her autonomy" to her daughter, she can STILL MAKE HER OWN CHOICES, and doubtful the daughter would try to enforce or go against them, as she was not declared inept or forced in to the contract. This just allows her daughter to handle *SOMETHING* possibly innocuous as their chinese-graft offshore accounts that the younger is going to need access to when the toad finally croaks.

LITTERALLY NOTHING TO SEE HERE.


{{{CRICKETS}}}

 

[33dInd]

Has a POA ever been used in the senate before?

That’s what I was wondering
Can her daughter vote in her stead

 

[Murt]

just another pathetic act in the even more pathetic show called government

 

[33dInd]

For those who might not kno or remember
When she was mayor of San Francisco she held a public press conference on the serial kill known as the night stalker
She released information known only to the police about critical evidence that linked him to numerous crimes

He disposed of that evidence and murder charges on over a dozen murders could not be filed

 

[night driver]

LITTERALLY NOTHING TO SEE HERE.


{{{CRICKETS}}}

Remember that LEGALLY, she EITHER Dies or RETIRES.
There is NO LEGAL WAY to get her removed from The Senate **UNLESS** the MEMBERS OF THE SENATE vote her out of the seat.
There is NO WAY for the voters to RECALL a Congress Critter.


ANY CONGRESS CRITTER!!!!

 

[momma_soapmaker]

She'll bust hell wide open one day. She can't avoid God forever.

 

[Chicory]

Echoes of John McCain and Ruth bader Ginsburg. Both kept a death grip on their positions, control and power.

 

[anna43]

That’s what I was wondering
Can her daughter vote in her stead

Good question. A general POA allows the appointed POA to act on behalf of the individual. I don't believe that extends to things like voting in an election so hopefully would not allow the daughter to act for her mother in the Senate.

 

[night driver]

As a Congress Critter, their oath doesn't allow it.

 

[JasmineAndLace]

I'm not convinced in this case that the POA is even legal. Just as in making a will, the person making it must be "of sound mind" and she definitely isn't.

 

[Kewpie]

True, but it's ALMOST ALWAYS the impetus for this legal move is the obvious degeneration of the thinking process of the person providing the POA. *Especially* if it's an adult child involved.

And given that Fineswine certainly has lawyers, accountants and secretaries/assistants doing her paperwork chores already, there are obviously more reasons than convenience to do this now.

Summerthyme

I 100% agree here. She’s getting to senile, and is being propped up so that she doesn’t upset whatever plans are in their works, and namely, they want to make sure she croaks on the job at the right time so a replacement can be *named* and not voted in. Cali is at a point where a politician that promises to be tough in certain areas but moderate enough to be lenient in others would sweep a vote.