The New York Times editorializes against the blue slip, the practice by which individual senators can block confirmation of federal judicial nominees
Year-end analysis by Russell Wheeler of Brookings: "Judiciary Committee chair Patrick Leahy rigorously honors a committee tradition of not processing nominees who are opposed by either home-state senator [blue slip]. It is thus pointless for the administration to send the Senate a nominee without those senators’ assurances they will not block the nomination."
The NYTimes says of the blue slip: "It’s a form of senatorial courtesy that goes back to 1917 or so, giving senators an anti-democratic power never contemplated in the Constitution."
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