Grassley challenges Trump’s request to remove “ Blue Slips ” from the Senate for legal choices

The first republican of the Senate judicial committee is again firm against President Donald Trump’s request that the tradition of the Senate was changed in RAM through his district court and candidates for the American lawyer.

The Senate’s judicial president, Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, was again under Trump fire on Sunday evening on the “Blue Slips” of the Senate, a long-standing practice in the upper room that the president wants to be deleted.

A blue shift indeed gives the Senate Republicans and Democrats the veto capacity to the district court and candidates for American lawyers in their states of origin.

Trump tells Grassley to tell the Democrats `Go to Hell ” on judicial candidates blocked in the Senate

Senator Chuck Grassley, an Iowa republican and president of the Senate judicial committee, is seen during a confirmation hearing in Washington, DC, on January 30, 2025. (Daniel Heuer / Bloomberg via Getty Images)

But Grassley argued in an answer on X on Monday that without Blue Slips, none of Trump’s nominees would go and gather in the Senate.

“An American district judge candidate without blue shift has (the) votes to be confirmed on the Senate soil and they do not (the) votes to get out of the (committee),” said Grassley. “As president, I put (president) Trump names success and not failure.”

Trump argued that it was his constitutional right to appoint American judges and lawyers, but the law had “completely removed me in states that have only one American Democratic senator”.

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President Donald Trump speaks with journalists from the James Brady Press news room at the White House on August 11, 2025, in Washington. (AP photo / Alex Brandon)

“It is because of an old Obsolete old ” custom known as Blue Slip, that Senator Chuck Grassley, of the great state of Iowa, refuses to overthrow, even if the Democrats, including Joe Biden (twice!), Said Trump.

“Consequently, the only candidates that I can be confirmed for these most important positions are, believe or not, the Democrats! Chuck Grassley should allow powerful republican candidates to go up to these very vital and powerful roles, and to say to the Democrats, as they often tell us, to go to hell,” he continued.

Trump tells Schumer to go to hell ” on the Senate candidate

The leader of the Senate minority, Chuck Schumer, Dn.y., joined by senator Amy Klobuchar, D-minn., On the right, speaks to journalists after Party meetings in Huis at the Capitole in Washington on June 17, 2025. (APO photo / J. Scott Applewhite)

The Democrats of the Senate have indeed used the Blue Slip tradition this year to block some of Trump’s choices for the bench as part of their broader jamb.

For example, the head of the Senate minority, Chuck Schumer, DN.Y., used his blue brief privileges for the American lawyers of Nix Trump for the South and Oriental Districts of New York.

And meaning. Cory Booker and Andy Kim, both Democrats from New Jersey, used the Blue Slip to oppose the appointment of Alina Habba to the American lawyer in the Garden State. Habba was exploited by Trump to play in this role on a provisional basis, but after his mandate, a panel of judges chose not to extend his position.

A replacement was chosen but then fired by the Attorney General Pam Bondi. Trump then withdrew his appointment to Habba and restored his provisional status.

“Habba was withdrawn as president of the president for the New Jersey US Atty on July 24,” said Grassley. “(And) The (Judicial Committee) has never received any of the necessary documents for the Senate to check its appointment.”

Trump’s renewed ire occurs after distinguishing Grassley last month so as not to have the longtime tradition, which is not a law, and asked that it “has the courage” to change the practice.

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This also occurs after the Senate Republicans and the Democrats did not have an agreement on the spot through many presidents of the president before leaving Washington for all of August.

Finding a path to go, including a probable change in the Senate confirmation process, should be an absolute priority for the Republicans when they return to the hill after the Labor Day.