President Trump on Sunday demanded pressure on the protecting the “blue slip” practice on Chak Grassley (R-Ayova), chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, which allows home-state senators to nominate in offices of district courts and American lawyers.
“I have a constitutional right to appoint judges and American lawyers, but this right has been completely taken away from me from states which have only one Democrats of the United States,” Trump His truth is written in a post on social stage,
“This is due to an old and older ‘custom’ known as a blue slip, which refuses to reversed the great state Iowa Senator Chak Grassley, even though the Democrats, which includes the crooked Joe Biden (twice!), Did so on several occasions,” Trump continued.
“Chak Grassley should allow strong Republican candidates to climb these very important and powerful roles, and tell Democrats, as they often tell us, to go to hell!”
Last month, Trump was forced to withdraw the nomination of Alina Habba, the state’s Democratic Senator, Corey Booker and Andy Kim, to serve as a federal prosecutor in New Jersey.Nomination,
Traditionally, the chairs of the Senate Judication Committee did not proceed on the federal district-level judicial and prosecution candidates, until both Senator represent the state, where they return to the blue-slip documents signing the nominees to the districts.
On Thursday, a federal judge Government This hubba is illegally serving as New JerseyTop federal prosecutor Since 24 July, when his 120-day period ended to serve as an American advocate in interim capacity.
In response, hubba Target In Grassley, with Booker and Kim, to follow the “Blue Slip” tradition.
Habba said during an appearance on Fox News’s “Hannie”, “No. 1, I was an American Attorney nomination man.
“And clearly, by grabbing a traditional blue slip with Sen Grassley, not a law, and does not allow the President’s lots of pics to vote and vote by the Senate,” he told the host scene hanti. “I did not even meet that point.”
Habba continued, “Then, fast-forward. It goes to the judges; 17 federal judges in the New Jersey State, 15 of whom are Obama and Biden-appointed, that, just like, such as, like, clearly-clearly-clearly-clearly- [as] We saw [New York Attorney General Letitia] James – Try to use your seat for political motivation. ,
After Trump, last month, the 91 -year -old senator spokesman, against Grassley’s rearing for Blue Slip customs, in the office since 1981, said that he has shifted several American attorney nominees of Trump to the Democratic -led states.
“Chairman Grassley has already successfully successfully transferred American lawyers through the committee who received a blue slip from Democrats, including Virginia’s Senator Warner Warner and Calobuhar and Smith of Causan and Minnesota. When a candidate comes out of the committee, the part of all 100 senators is said to be a part of the renovation of all 100 senators and their ideas are said to be a part of their ideas. It happens.”
The hill has reached Grassley’s office for comment.
