senate blue slip - Search News

News

Trump, Senate and blue slip

Politico on MSN · 6d

Trump wants the Senate to scrap the 'blue slip.' Republicans aren't interested.

Senators are fiercely protective of the longstanding precedent that gives them deference over who serves as U.S. attorneys and district court judges back home.

Fox News on MSN · 15h

Trump threatens lawsuit over 'blue slips' as top GOP senator bucks demand to bend Senate rules for nominees

President Donald Trump renewed his demand for the Senate's "blue slip" tradition to be done away with and urged Senate Judiciary Chair Chuck Grassley to tell Democrats to "go to HELL."

Courthouse News Service · 15h

Trump eyes suing Senate over blue slips as he fumes about judicial blockade

It’s unclear whether the president could succeed in a legal challenge to the longstanding bipartisan tradition, which is an informal agreement between lawmakers not enshrined in law.

Alina Habba, Senate

Alina Habba tears into Senate lawmakers over 'blue slip' tradition: 'I won't be intimidated'

Acting U.S. Attorney for the District of New Jersey Alina Habba reacts to Senate lawmakers upholding the 'blue slip' tradition regarding judicial nominations to U.S. circuit and district courts.

Twistity on MSN · 15h

Judge Rules Alina Habba's Role as U.S. Attorney in New Jersey Was Illegitimate

Credit: Shutterstock When the Law Becomes a Chessboard, the People Always Lose Alina Habba, best known as one of Donald Trump's personal lawyers, was supposed to be the top federal prosecutor in New Jersey.

Salon on MSN · 17h

GOP senator fires back after Trump rages over Alina Habba snub

Iowa, and Thom Tillis, R-N.C., both of whom defended the “blue slip” rule, which allows the senators representing the home state of a judicial nominee to block that pick. Senators Cory Booker and Andy Kim of New Jersey used that rule to prevent Habba from being confirmed by the Senate.

1don MSN

Trump Says His Constitutional Right to Appoint Judges Being Denied

In a post on his Truth Social platform on Sunday, Trump complained that the process prevented him from appointing Republican ...

4don MSNOpinion

Senate judicial confirmation delays spark President Trump’s ire

The recent flare-up between President Trump and Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) conjures the ...

Results that may be inaccessible to you are currently showing.

Hide inaccessible results