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Sen. Dianne Feinstein’s (D-CA) voting record is often shorthanded as “centrist.” In practice, that means the senior senator from California has quite often rejected progressive policies and supported the exercise of state power to launch wars, restrict civil liberties, surveil people, and, until recently, criminalize marijuana and put prisoners to death.

Sen. Dianne Feinstein’s (D-CA) voting record is often shorthanded as “centrist.” In practice, that means the senior senator from California has quite often rejected progressive policies and supported the exercise of state power to launch wars, restrict civil liberties, surveil people, and, until recently, criminalize marijuana and put prisoners to death.

More than once during the ongoing crisis of organized labor in the United States, In These Times has wondered whether this event or that is the nail in labor’s coffin. Today, in the wake of the Supreme Court’s June 27 Janus v. AFSCME decision, we hear clods of earth hitting the lid. With private-sector union membership at an all-time low of 7 percent, Janus threatens labor’s last bastion: the 34-percent-unionized public sector.