Posted on 07/31/2025 1:34:54 PM PDT by RandFan
Republican senators were appalled by President Trump’s rough treatment of 91-year-old Sen. Chuck Grassley (Iowa), the Senate’s most senior Republican, on social media and are pushing back on Trump’s attempts to squeeze the senator into abolishing an arcane procedure known as the Senate blue slip.
GOP senators were not pleased that Trump piled so much pressure on Grassley, the chair of the Senate Judiciary Committee, to get rid of a long-established Senate tradition. Trump piled on by reposting on Truth Social posts accusing Grassley of being a “RINO” and “sneaky” and standing in the way of Trump’s agenda.
Sen. Thom Tillis (R-N.C.), a member of the Senate Judiciary Committee who has separately felt the wrath of Trump for his opposition to the tax and spending megabill earlier this month, said Trump appears to be getting bad advice from his staff.
“I think it was a bad — No. 1, Chuck is beloved in our conference. No. 2, the blue-slip policy helps the president. He’s got staff giving him bad advice,” Tillis said.
He argued that keeping in place the tradition of allowing senators to use documents known as blue slips to block district-court level judicial nominees and U.S. attorney nominees has preserved an important element of bipartisanship in the Senate.
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Don’t care, all those senators are backstabbing swap creatures out for themselves above the country.
“””””He argued that keeping in place the tradition of allowing senators to use documents known as blue slips to block district-court level judicial nominees and U.S. attorney nominees has preserved an important element of bipartisanship in the Senate.””””
Bipartisanship in the Senate??????? I don’t think he knows what that word means.
“Don’t care, all those senators are backstabbing swap creatures out for themselves above the country.”
You forgot “entitled snobs”.
The blue slip policy is trash. Winning elections means you make decisions and losing them means you don’t get what you want. The Senate prevents self correction by the people.
Senator Grassley told me personally that the 2020 Election was the most fair and transparent he’s witnessed. Swamp!
The perfumed princes in the senate who are the majority are going on a month and a half vacation leaving the judiciary Trump appointments open and blocking recess appointments
They are irritating Trump
And us
We didn’t vote for that
Bunch of gasbags.
The Democrats still manage to get through radicals who don’t think the President is allowed to fire his staff. I think it’s time to take a chance on allowing the people to correct things by voting out Senators who allow such nonsense
Trump is right and these worthless RINO’s are illustrating precisely why I finally left !@#$%! GOP 4 years ago.
The hellish Hill is on the Leftist side against America. The Hill can go to Hell AFAIC.
Is the Hill telling the truth? The presumption is no, they are Leftist liars. Only clear and convincing evidence that they are actually telling the truth can rebut that presumption.
Over and out.
This is the final straw
I’m voting for Vegetable Joe Biden
Turn off the Senate air conditioning and stay in session until the nominations are confirmed.
Red senators from states like Florida and Texas can generally take the heat.
PDJT should go . . . for a walk, and get some exercize, take a shower, hug the wife, have dinner, read a book and go . . . to bed.
Before he blows a gasket.
Oh no, senators have hurt feewings.
Grassley allows the other senators to push him around. And for many years he has allowed the pink haired screamers to interrupt his committees and hearings.
Gee, it’s Thom Tillis. Grassley has been in there longer than McConnell.
Just so uncalled for. Whatever Chuck Grassley’s views on the stupid blue slip rule, he was one of the few in the Senate who stood up for Trump during the whole Russian hoax.
Dr. Raoul's GhostGo down to Hampton Roads and U.S. military facilities thereabouts, and visit.
Just barge right in.
Talk with the people. It'll do you good.
91-year-old Sen. Chuck Grassley
I think we can see what the problem is...
“It happens on both sides,” he said. “We were able to block some bad judges last time with a blue slip.”"
91-year-old Sen. Chuck Grassley
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