The blue slip, a longstanding Senate tradition that gives lawmakers a mechanism for weighing in on White House judicial ...

Lawmakers have long abided by the practice as a mechanism for giving senators a say on judicial nominees for their home ...

The president fumed over the Democratic Party’s ability to block his “Highly Qualified Judges and U.S. Attorneys” through the ...

Senate Judiciary Chair Chuck Grassley won't do away with "blue slip" practice despite the president calling for its end to ...

President Donald Trump called for the end of the Senate’s “blue slip” policy on Tuesday, renewing debate on the 108-year-old ...

President Donald Trump has railed against Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-IA) for maintaining the customary use of blue slips in ...

President Trump had demanded that Grassley, an Iowa Republican, find the “courage” to end the blue-slip practice.

Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) fired back at President Trump’s broadsides over his adherence to ...

It is a tradition in the Senate that lawmakers return ‘blue slips’ to let federal judicial and prosecutorial nominees move ...