Dianne Feinstein

When Washington Sen. Patty Murray received a call early Friday morning that Sen. Dianne Feinstein had died, she immediately started calling her fellow female senators. The Democrat's first call was to Republican Senator Susan Collins, who had worked with Feinstein almost as long as she had. Alabama’s Katie Britt sent a text.

The U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee was scheduled to vote on Senator Jeff Sessions’ confirmation as the next U.S. Attorney General earlier this week. But…