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Trump Seeks to Get Rid of Senate’s Blue Slip Tradition: What to Know

The president said that the blue slip tradition infringes on his executive authority.
Trump Seeks to Get Rid of Senate’s Blue Slip Tradition: What to Know
The Senate side of the U.S. Capitol in Washington on July 14, 2025. Madalina Kilroy/The Epoch Times
Jackson Richman
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Joseph Lord
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President Donald Trump has called for an end to the Senate tradition known as the “blue slip,” despite resistance from Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa).

The blue slip is a tradition that allows senators from the state in which a judicial nominee has been selected to approve or block the nomination.

Jackson Richman is a Washington correspondent for The Epoch Times. In addition to Washington politics, he covers the intersection of politics and sports/sports and culture. He previously was a writer at Mediaite and Washington correspondent at Jewish News Syndicate. His writing has also appeared in The Washington Examiner. He is an alum of George Washington University.
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