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

President Donald Trump on Tuesday pressured Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-IA) to scrap the “blue slip ...

U.S. Sen. Chuck Grassley said he was "surprised" and "offended" to see Republican President Donald Trump criticize him on ...

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 ...

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

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

Senate Majority Leader John Thune on Wednesday rejected President Donald Trump’s call to disregard a Senate tradition to ...

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

This first blue slip stated, “Sir: Will you kindly give me, for the use of the Committee, your opinion and information concerning the nomination of…”, and five years later, Chairman Knute ...

The Senate's “blue slip” for judicial nominees could be on its way out. But it's not all it's cracked up to be.