President Donald Trump waved and pointed out the crowd when he left the stage at the Iowa State Fairgrounds on July 3, 2025 for an event that led a one -year celebration for the 250th anniversary of America. (Photo by Robin Opsahl/Iowa Capital Dispatch)
Washington President Donald Trump and the Republican Senator of Iowa, Chuck Grassley, saves on social media about whether the chairman of the judicial committee should give up a centuries-old tradition that enables the senators to block the rise of judicial candidates that would serve in the home states of senators.
Trump, who had some of his tips for the Bundesbank, rejected the democratic senators.
Trump published on the weekend on social media that he wanted the leaders of the GOP Senate carry out his judicial candidates, regardless of the opposition of the Democrats, and said on Monday that he would sue the practice he described as “unconstitutional”.
“We will also submit a lawsuit about Blue Sliping,” he said on Monday morning in the Oval Office. “You know, Blue briefs make it impossible for me as President to appoint a judge or a US lawyer because they have a gentleman agreement -nothing remembered.”
The Comments of the White House came after Trump beat the practice on social media at the weekend and said Grassley how to proceed.
“I have a constitutional right to appoint judges and US lawyers, but this right was completely taken in states that only have a democratic senator of the United States,” Trump published on social media.
“This is due to an old and outdated ‘custom’, which is known as a blue slip and the Senator Chuck Grassley from the Great State Iowa, to tip over, although the Democrats, including Crooked Joe Biden (twice!), Has added.” Therefore, the only candidates that I can confirm for this most vital positions are that the Democrats! Chuck Grassley Strong Republican candidates allow these very vital and powerful roles to climb and tell the Democrats, as they often tell us to go to hell! “
Grassley will not end blue briefs
Grassley replied on Monday morning that he would not end the Blue Slip tradition.
“A US candidate/district judge without blue slip is not the votes to be confirmed on the ground of the Senate, and they are not the voices to rise from CMTE as chairman.
In a separate contribution, he wrote that Alina “Habba was withdrawn on July 24th as the President of the President of New Jersey Us Atty and Judic CMe never received one of the paperwork needed for the Senate to check their nomination.”
A federal judge on Thursday said Habba Has no lawful authority To be modern jersey’s reigning US lawyer.
Grassley was Re -elected in November 2022for a term of six years that ends in January 2029.
Tradition since 1917
The impartial congress research service writes in A report In the process that “the use of the Blue Slip by the committee has been a feature of considering such nominations since” at least 1917 “.
“After a president selected a candidate for a US judge or a judgment of the district court, the chairman sends a blue-colored form to the two senators who represent the candidate’s home state,” explains the report.
“The form is looking for the candidate’s assessment by the home’s senators. If a senator of the home state has no objection to a candidate, the blue panties will be returned to the chairman with a positive reaction. However, if a senator of the home state will be a candidate on a candidate for a nominated object that leaves blue slip or returned. Instances indicate that a candidate was missing the support of at least one senator of the home state.
Jacob Fischler contributed to this report.
