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’ offices, can proceed without being blocked by home-state Senators.
“‘Blue slips’ are making it impossible to get great Republican judges and U.S. attorneys approved to serve in any state where there is even a single Democrat Senator,” bemoaned Trump on Thursday. “It is shocking that Republicans, under Senator Chuck [Grassley], allow this scam to continue. So unfair to Republicans, and not constitutional.”
Trump went on to make a public plea to Senate Majority Leader John Thune, asking that he “get something done—ideally the termination of blue slips.”
But in a rare move in opposition of Tr

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