Fed-Up Trump Rips GOP Senate Leaders For Continuing ‘Blue Slip’ Tradition Blocking His Nominees

The blue slip “privilege” is precisely why Alina Habba — President Trump’s former personal attorney and his pick for U.S. Attorney in New Jersey — was ultimately forced to step aside. Her nomination never even got a fair hearing. Instead, it was torpedoed by New Jersey’s two Democratic senators, Cory Booker and Andy Kim, who used the blue slip tradition to kill her appointment outright.

The practice is a Senate tradition and is not formally established in the Judiciary Committee’s rules, meaning the chairman is not required to delay or reject a nomination

“The president has a right to not go along with what the judges want,” Grassley said a few months back. “It’s going around the fact that all U.S. attorneys are being held up here. You’re talking about a universal problem that we have in all 93 districts, not just in New York and New Jersey.”