President Trump is escalating his criticism of Senate Judiciary Committee Chair Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) for his unwillingness ...

Senate Judiciary Committee Chair Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) is pushing back on criticism from President Trump, who has railed ...

The Judiciary Committee chair, and his fellow Republicans, have so far brushed off pressure from the president to nix the ...

Iowa, has previously rejected President Donald Trump’s calls to disregard the federal official confirmation tradition. The ...

President Trump on Sunday sought to ramp up pressure on Senate Judiciary Committee Chair Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) over his ...

Trump trashed the "blue slip" as an "old and outdated 'custom'" that has allowed Democrats to block his nominees.

Senators are fiercely protective of the longstanding precedent that gives them deference over who serves as U.S. attorneys ...

President Donald Trump renewed his demand for the Senate's "blue slip" tradition to be done away with and urged Senate ...

Senators approve of a nominee by returning their blue slip to the Judiciary Committee Chairman. If a senator does not return ...

The senatorial courtesy prevents partisans such as Alina Habba from becoming U.S. attorneys.

Speaking from the Oval Office, Trump slammed the blue-slip process, which is not a formal Senate rule but a bipartisan ...

Blue slip supporters, which include most Senate Republicans, note two portions of the Constitution that they say clearly allow the process.