Topline President Donald Trump on Thursday night criticized the Senate’s “blue slip” tradition—which allows senators to effectively block district court judges and U.S. attorney nominees from their home states—as he doubled down on a stance that very recently faced pushback from Republican senators. President Donald Trump reiterated his attack on the Senate’s “Blue Slip” tradition…
WASHINGTON (AP) — The indictment of former FBI Director James Comey is only two pages and alleges he falsely testified to Congress in 2020 about authorizing someone to be an anonymous source in news stories. That brevity belies a convoluted and contentious backstory. The events at the heart of the disputed testimony are among the…
President Donald Trump said he is being denied his constitutional right to appoint judges by the “blue slip” tradition that allows senators to object to presidential judicial appointments. In a post on his Truth Social platform on Sunday, Trump complained that the process prevented him from appointing Republican judges. Why It Matters Trump appointed 234…
By Nate Raymond (Reuters) -U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee Chair Chuck Grassley said on Wednesday he was “offended” and “disappointed” by President Donald Trump‘s social media posts targeting him for refusing to end a custom that allows Democratic senators to effectively veto new nominees to serve as judges and prosecutors in their states. At the start…