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Ruben Navarrette: Sen. Dianne Feinstein , D-Calif. Feinstein's slide from able senator to incompetent one was a slow process.
He says Feinstein 's cognitive impairment was apparent years earlier to family, friends, friends and allies.
Feinstein is just the latest example of the Senate tolerating a senator whose continued “service” no longer serves the public interest, he says.
All paths will be difficult to implement, including those that may require amendments to the Constitution . But as our society ages , the problem of mental incompetency of its senators — and our population more generally — will only become a more frequent problem. Ignoring it now, as we’ve done in the past, isn’t a mentally competent choice. Justin Thulin is a retired physician who practiced in Salt Lake City ..
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