Senate’s ‘Blue Slips’ May Be Casualty of Democrats’ Religious Tests

Senate’s ‘Blue Slips’ May Be Casualty of Democrats’ Religious Tests
Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Lindsey Graham (R) (R-S.C.) confers with former committee chairman Sen. Chuck Grassley (L) (R-IA) during a committee hearing in Washington on Jan. 15, 2019. Alex Wong/Getty Images
Mark Tapscott
Updated:

WASHINGTON—A venerable Senate tradition known as “blue slips” could become the next casualty of Democrats increasingly frequent imposition of religious litmus tests on federal judicial nominees.

For more than 100 years, senators have used the slips—literally a blue sheet of paper—to indicate support or opposition on a presidential nominee. A home-state senator’s disapproval on a blue slip was customarily the kiss of death for a nomination.

Mark Tapscott
Mark Tapscott
Senior Congressional Correspondent
Mark Tapscott is an award-winning senior Congressional correspondent for The Epoch Times. He covers Congress, national politics, and policy. Mr. Tapscott previously worked for Washington Times, Washington Examiner, Montgomery Journal, and Daily Caller News Foundation.
twitter
Related Topics