Dianne Feinstein has died at the age of 90, with colleagues including Chuck Schumer and Nancy Pelosi paying tribute.
Born Dianne Goldman, the thrice-married Democrat became California’s first woman senator in 1992, going on to chair the Senate Rules Committee and the Senate Intelligence Committee.
The far-left Democrat was the author of the federal assault weapons ban in 1994.
She will be replaced in the Senate by an appointee of Governor Gavin Newsom, who has already committed to a racist and sexist policy of only picking a black woman.