Senate Republicans do not always bow to President Donald Trump's wishes. He wants to end "blue slips," an informal practice that lets individual senators block Trump's appointments of federal judges and prosecutors in their home states. The Senate is not backing down.

The GOP controls the Senate , but the tradition means that "some of Trump's judicial nominees have stalled out" because Democratic senators in blue states like New York and New Jersey have withheld their approval, said ABC News . Trump expressed his "continued displeasure" with the practice in a Truth Social post. Senate Judiciary Committee Chair Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) should "tell the Democrats, as they often tell us, to go to HELL!" Trump said. Senate Republicans, though, say the custom allows them to block libera

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