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 ...

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

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.

Debbie Stabenow, D-Mich., and Gary Peters, D-Mich., are now threatening to "blue-slip" Trump's nomination of Joan Larsen to the 6th Circuit Court of Appeals. Other senators are making similar threats.

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.