Chuck Grassley ‘Offended’ By Trump Attack On Senate Rules For Judges
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Incredibly, Senate Republicans are finally standing up to Trump on something — and it's over the judiciary committee's arcane "blue slip" tradition.
WASHINGTON — Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), the chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, said Wednesday he is “offended” by President Donald Trump publicly pressuring him to ditch an obscure committee tradition so Trump can confirm more of his judges.
In brief remarks at the start of a hearing, Grassley responded to Trump posting on social media late Tuesday that Grassley should “IMMEDIATELY” get rid of the committee’s so-called blue slip rule, a custom unique to the judiciary panel that prevents any U.S. district court nominee or U.S. attorney nominee from getting a hearing unless both of that nominee’s home-state senators turn in a literal blue slip of paper to the committee, signifying their support for that nominee.
It’s not a hard rule, but Republican and Democratic chairmen of the committee have upheld the tradition to varying degrees when they’ve been in the majority.
“Last night, I was surprised to see President Trump on Truth Social go after me and Senate Republicans over what we call the ‘blue slip,‘” Grassley said Wednesday. “The people in real America don’t care about what the ‘blue slip’ is but, in fact, it impacts in their states the district judges who serve their communities.”
“I was offended by what the president said, and I’m disappointed that it would result in personal insults,” he said.
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