Chairman @ChuckGrassley is upholding the blue slip courtesy as applied throughout the majority of its 100 year history -- as 16/18 chairmen before him. The facts → https://www.judiciary.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/Blue%20Slip%20Fact%20Sheet.pdf …
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Spin aside, the question is whether this is the way he applied it for Obama's noms, and before that how he demanded Leahy apply it.
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This is misleading. Presumes blue slip = veto. Simply not true— and certainly not considering its long history otherwise. Moreover, Grassley intends to give it power for District Court noms.
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