Senate Republicans beat their own record for federal district court confirmations — but vacancies are drying up, appellate ...

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 ...

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 ...

President Donald Trump called for the end of the Senate’s “blue slip” policy on Tuesday, renewing debate on the 108-year-old practice that grants senators a fundamental role in judicial confirmations ...

President Donald Trump has railed against Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-IA) for maintaining the customary use of blue slips in judicial nominations. Grassley, chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, has ...

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 ...

Jacob Adams is a journalism fellow at The Daily Signal. Send an email to Jacob. President Donald Trump is seeking to end the long-standing “blue slip” tradition of giving senators veto power over some ...

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 Trump is escalating his criticism of Senate Judiciary Committee Chair Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) for his unwillingness to overhaul the “blue slip,” a move that has further dismayed Senate ...

Speaking from the Oval Office, Trump slammed the blue-slip process, which is not a formal Senate rule but a bipartisan tradition dating back more than 100 years. Trump complained the tradition has ...

President Trump sought to ramp up pressure on Senate Judiciary Committee Chair Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) on Sunday over his defense of the “blue slip” practice that allows home-state senators to veto ...