[clintonh8r]

Very confusing reporting.

First McConnell says “he”planned on removing the blue slips, and then his spokesman says “the Republican Party did not intend on (sic) eliminating the blue slips.”

So, is McConnell going to get rid of the blue slips or not, because the Republican Party clearly does not have the authority to determine Senate procedures.

[cotton1706]

All McConnell wants to do is to convince his DONORS that he MIGHT get rid of the blue slips, then he’ll defer to Chuck Grassley, the Judiciary chair, who will defer to tradition and deny hearings and votes for nominees lacking blue slip returns.

There are judiciary hearings on Tuesday. Watch to see if the vote on them after the hearings or schedule votes a week or two ahead. They’re playing the delay game, to keep conservative jurisprudence out of the courts.

Trump is sending them conservatives only! You can bet your a$$ that if Trump sent some Harriet Miers types, Grassley and McConnell would be fast-tracking them, with democrat help.

[Political Junkie Too]

I thought McConnell said he wasn't eliminating them, but just treating them as advisory and not a block.

Besides the reporting on this has been shoddy. Since 2003, the process was that both Senators from the state had to blue slip a nominee - one wasn't enough to block; reports said that both had to concur.

-PJ