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 ...

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’ ...

Like many ancient institutions, the U.S. Senate has more than its fair share of arcane and obsolete rules. Washington spent the last two years debating the merits and deficits of the filibuster as ...

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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 ...

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 ...

When it comes to judicial confirmations, Democrats are at risk of becoming Charlie Brown and having the football swiped out from under them — again. They are clinging to Senate traditions that ...

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 ...