President Trump on Thursday once again criticized the “blue slip” practice, which allows home-state senators to veto district court judge and U.S. attorney nominees.
Trump, in one Post On his Truth Social platform he said he had eight “highly respected” U.S. Attorney nominees who “will not be confirmed to their positions in various highly consequential states simply because they are Republicans.”
The president said Democrats on the Senate Judiciary Committee have convinced Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) to honor the “blue slip” rule.
“The careers of these great people have been badly damaged by radical leftist Democrats blatantly exploiting an outdated and ridiculous tradition for their own benefit,” Trump said. “What a shame!”
The chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee traditionally does not move forward with such nominations until both senators representing the state where the districts are located return blue-slip documents approving them.
Trump has criticized practice in the past, including in August, when he said his constitutional right to appoint judges and U.S. attorneys in states with at least one Democratic senator “has been completely taken away from me.”
When contacted for comment, a spokesperson for Grassley directed The Hill to Post on social platform X in August feedback The President’s most recent criticism of this practice.
Grassley said that no U.S. attorney and district judge nominee “gets the votes for confirmation on the Senate floor without a blue slip and they don’t get the votes to get out of the CMTE.”
“As Speaker I have set nominations for President Trump’s failure, not success.”
American lawyer candidates Those based in states with at least one Democratic senator include Jay Clayton in the Southern District of New York and Erin Creegan in New Hampshire.
Trump had to do this in July Removal Following the state Democratic senators, Andy Kim and Cory Booker,’s nomination of his former defense attorney Alina Hubba to become U.S. attorney for New Jersey, Oppose it.
The administration then sought to keep him in the role of a federal judge, without Senate confirmation. Government In August it was said that she was illegally acting as the Garden State’s top federal prosecutor.
