Do We Still Honor the Blue Slip?

The blue slip is a senate tradition that the judiciary committee would not go forward with a judicial nominee from a senator's home state. Sheldon whithous: The republic threw away their own authority and trashed our authority as democrats in order to give their lord and master full authority over appointing all circuit court of appeals judges, te level just below the supreme court. It shows how powerful the hold of trump and of the dark money crowd packing these courts is over all of them," he says.