Like many ancient institutions, the U.S. Senate has more than its fair share of arcane and obsolete rules. Washington spent the last two years debating the merits and deficits of the filibuster as ...

On Wednesday, Senator Chuck Grassley of Iowa said he was “offended” by Donald Trump’s “personal attacks,” as the president wages war on the Senate’s “blue slip” tradition. Traditionally, when the ...

U.S. Sen. John Fetterman gave the OK for one of President Donald Trump's nominees for a federal judge position in Pennsylvania to move forward.

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump continued his tirade against Democratic objections to his nominees, pressing Republicans to undo a longstanding practice that allows members of the minority party ...

Speaking from the Oval Office, Trump slammed the blue-slip process, which is not a formal Senate rule but a bipartisan tradition dating back more than 100 years. Trump complained the tradition has ...

President Donald Trump has railed against Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-IA) for maintaining the customary use of blue slips in judicial nominations. Grassley, chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, has ...

When it comes to judicial confirmations, Democrats are at risk of becoming Charlie Brown and having the football swiped out from under them — again. They are clinging to Senate traditions that ...

Before voting to move two dozen of President Joe Biden's judicial nominees to the Senate floor, blue slips, which have been required from home-state senators by committee chairs in recent years for a ...