Senators are typically involved in the judicial selection process, so it's rare for them not to turn in a blue slip for a nominee from their home state. But if Trump is nominating judges based on what The Federalist Society recommends, for example, blue slips allow Democrats in the Senate to block those nominations indefinitely if they are appointed to courts in their home states.
Grassley has suggested he may not require blue slips for circuit court nominations.
Getting rid of the Blue Slip rule would be huge. As long as Blue Slips are required we will never see any sanity inserted on the 9th Circuit. California, Oregon and Washington would never, ever allow a real constitutional conservative to pass.
Maybe there's hope for the Federal Judiciary yet.
It’s called winning elections. Glad to see the panicky little hate mongers upset.
Better hurry before someone changes their minds. Well past time to clean the judicial house and install people with common sense instead of bought and paid for judges.
tough.
As it’s widely known, the 9th needs to be broken up. No reason for that to have so much sway over things.
Thank God in heaven - and Trump!
Imagine the sorry state the pukes we still call “republicans” would be in, had Trump lost?
I hope and pray. Only, it worries me that so many of our appointees wind up being infiltrators or at least enablers for the left. I’ve never heard of the opposite happening, not in the judiciary (which is where they really squeeze us, because we don’t elect those jokers). Scalia was a once-in-lifetime true-blue conservative.
Amen, amen!
I'm hopeful, but with all the RINOs and Never Trumpers, I'm skeptical that President Trump will be able to fill these vacancies without a fight.
The only reason a Republican would block these nominees...they would not follow nor protect our Constitution, they prefer Social Justice rather than Law, they would throw our judicial system out the window when it came to Sharia Law....Social Justice is communism...spreading the wealth and all the perks that go with that except there aren't any.
“Trump’s Javert” LOL.
The parallels with Les Miserables are too many to count!
Javert’s obsession with Jean Valjean, and his total ability to understand GRACE leads to his suicide.
Valjean could have led a cushy life in his old age, having accumulated much wealth, and successfully gotten rid of his “past”. But he risks it all in order to rescue Marius.
There are many more parallels, but these are the two that came to my mind right away.
Donald Trump is a Russian plant! /end “Free Republic NeverTrumper”
Repeal the 17th Amendment. That would solve a lot of problems.
Stupid rule, is simply an archaic formality, it has no practical value, like the Doorman at the House of Commons slamming the door in the face of the King or Queen..............
Get rid of blue slips and make the 9th circus the most conservative court in the nation. That may help fix the nuts out west too.
Thanks for posting this great news. More and more winning.
Anybody know how many fed justices have been appointed so far?
I know he’s been quietly nominating in batches, but don’t have a tally on the total to date.
Senate rules are causing a lot of problems.