Addressing Tuesday’s Senate Republican luncheon in the newly remodeled Rose Garden, President Donald Trump urged the GOP delegation to “look at” the long-standing “blue slip” tradition, arguing Democrat senators are using it to block his nominees for U.S. attorney and judicial posts.
Trump rebuked the “blue slip” policy as “unfair to the public” and “not constitutional,” taking away executive authority and ostensibly handing it to the “obstructionists” in the minority.
“Anytime you have a Democrat senator, not even two, just one, they’ll say, ‘We’re not approving that person,'” Trump lamented in his Rose Garden address that aired live on Newsmax and the free Newsmax2 streaming platform.
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