President Donald Trump has railed against Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-IA) for maintaining the customary use of blue slips in ...

Lawmakers have long abided by the practice as a mechanism for giving senators a say on judicial nominees for their home ...

President Donald Trump called for the end of the Senate’s “blue slip” policy on Tuesday, renewing debate on the 108-year-old ...

The blue slip, a longstanding Senate tradition that gives lawmakers a mechanism for weighing in on White House judicial ...

U.S. Sen. Chuck Grassley said he was "surprised" and "offended" to see Republican President Donald Trump criticize him on ...

Senate Majority Leader John Thune on Wednesday rejected President Donald Trump’s call to disregard a Senate tradition to ...

Trump claimed in a post on Truth Social that, given the current political climate, the procedure would mean that Democratic ...

Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-IA) bristled at President Donald Trump‘s calls to abandon a bipartisan tradition on judicial nominees, ...

President Trump had demanded that Grassley, an Iowa Republican, find the “courage” to end the blue-slip practice.

The president fumed over the Democratic Party’s ability to block his “Highly Qualified Judges and U.S. Attorneys” through the ...

The blue slip began as an information-gathering tool used to detect filibusters. As one important study points out, its first recorded use was in 1913—four years before the Senate adopted the ...

The blue-slip tradition has been violated only three times, most recently in 1989 and 1983 when California Democrat Alan Cranston refused to return his blue slip when President Reagan and then ...