U.S. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell reportedly said that a federal judicial nominee's home-state senators will no longer be able to use “blue slips” to deny a nominee a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing and vote on confirmation.
Hat tip to law professor Rick Hasen who calls this a "a serious escalation in the judicial wars."
Judicial Selection, by Stephen Ware, a law professor at KU, in Lawrence, Kansas.
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