Donald Trump has lashed out at what he called the Senate's "old and ridiculous custom" of using the "blue slip" tradition. The procedural tool that allows home-state senators to block nominees for ...

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President Donald Trump has renewed his plea for the Senate’s century-old “blue slip” process to be axed in a bid to ensure his U.S. district court nominations, along with those for U.S. attorneys’ ...

Speaking from the Oval Office, Trump slammed the blue-slip process, which is not a formal Senate rule but a bipartisan tradition dating back more than 100 years. Trump complained the tradition has ...

WASHINGTON (CN) — President Donald Trump waded into one of the Senate’s most arcane traditions Tuesday, as he called on Republicans to abandon a longstanding procedural mechanism known as the blue ...

President Trump on Thursday pressed Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-S.D.) to end the chamber's blue slip tradition, which Trump complained has gotten in the way of confirming many of his judge ...

The issue of the blue slip hasn’t gone away. As I’ve argued before, getting rid of them is not a very good idea. It’s also fruitless red-on-red violence because even if Chairman Chuck Grassley ignored ...

President Donald Trump is waging war against a century-old tradition in the Senate that both Republicans and Democrats don’t want to touch. Trump has ebbed and flowed in his disdain for the blue slip ...

The Senate Judiciary Committee will reconvene after the August recess this week for two days of hearings on judicial and United States attorney nominations amid tensions spurred by President Donald ...

President Donald Trump speaks in the Oval Office of the White House on Dec. 3, 2025 in Washington, D.C. Credit - Chip Somodevilla—Getty Images President Donald Trump has renewed his plea for the ...