As if the filibuster wasn’t enough. There’s another trick up the GOP’s sleeve to deep-six any of Biden’s judicial nominees they don’t like.
The “blue slip” -- literally, a blue slip of paper that both U.S. Senators in a state with a judicial nominee must return to approve the Senate Judiciary Committee moving forward to a vote.
Without a blue slip, the nominee is automatically blocked and cannot be confirmed.
It may not surprise you to hear that these blue slips date back to segregationist Senators seeking to obstruct judges who would uphold the Supreme Court’s Brown v. Board of Education decision desegregating the schools.
Democratic leaders in the Senate have the power to fix it.
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