Chuck Grassley offended by Trump’s attack against the rules of the Senate for the judges

Washington-El Senator Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), president of the Senate Judicial Committee, said Wednesday that he is “offended” by President Donald Trump by pressing him publicly to leave a dark tradition of the committee so that Trump can confirm more of his judges.

In a short comment at the beginning of an audience, Grassley responded to Trump’s publication on social networks on Tuesday night that Grassley should “immediately” get rid of the so -called blue sliding rule of the committee, an exclusive custom of the judicial panel that prevents any nominated for the United States District Court or the nominee to the lawyer of the Us of the Hearing unless both senators at home To the senators at the literal house to the Nomine to the payroll of the committee, the committee, the committee, the committee, the payroll of that nominee.

It is not a difficult rule, but the Republican and Democratic presidents of the Committee have confirmed the tradition of various degrees when the majority have been.

“Last night, I was surprised to see President Trump in Truth Social IR behind the Republicans and Republicans of the Senate so we call the ‘blue slip’,” Grassley said Wednesday. “The people of Real America do not care what is the ‘blue slip’, but, in fact, it affects in their states the district judges who attend their communities.”

“I was offended what the president said, and I am disappointed that it is in personal insults,” he said.

It is not clear why Trump suddenly bothers that Grassley is honoring the tradition of blue slip. In his Publication of strong and long social networksHe suggested that he cannot choose the people he wants for court seats or lawyers in California, New York, New Jersey, Illinois and Virginia.

“I should do this, immediately, and not let the Democrats laugh at him and the Republican Party for being weak and ineffective,” Trump said about Grassley. “The Democrats have broken this ridiculous custom in us, it is time for us to break it with them. Chuck, I know you have the courage to do this, do it!”

A White House spokesman did not immediately respond to a request for comments.

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The Republicans absolutely abused Blue Slips when Joe Biden was president, and before that, when Barack Obama was president. During the first Trump administration, the Democrats returned more than 130 blue slippers and helped confirm 84 district judges in states with at least one Democratic senator. On the contrary, more than two years after the presidency of Biden, the Republicans had returned Only 13 blue balls.

The idea behind the tradition of the committee is that senators should comment on who chooses presidents for federal judges for life in their states. But blue slippery have been an obstacle to presidents in both parties, since they have prevented them from advancing in certain selections from the district courts that do not have support from senators in those states.

Incredibly, despite all the times that Republicans have yielded to Trump’s demands, the commitment of the senators to keep the blue sliding rule of their judicial panel seems not to be negotiable.

“I don’t feel in a hurry to change it,” the leader of the majority of the Senate, John Thune (RS.D.) He said to journalists. He defended the custom and suggested that the Republicans are more interested in “looking at options” to accelerate the votes of the nominees on the Senate floor.

Senator John Kennedy (R-La.), Member of the Judicial Committee of the Senate, He said to journalists that would ask Trump to “go back” his calls to Grassley to leave the blue slippers.

Another member of the judicial panel, Senator Thom Tillis (Rn.C.), made fun of Trump for wanting to discard the tradition of Slip Blue for the nominees of the United States prosecutors.

“Who advised him about that policy without brain on this issue,” Tillis He said to journalists.

Progressive groups routinely broken In Senator Dick Durbin (D-Bill.) For not getting rid of blue when he presided over the Judicial Committee of the Senate and when Biden was president. Durbin said he was always looking “Common Land” With Republicans to obtain nominees.

On Wednesday, he told Grassley that he appreciated his blue slip defense rule in response to Trump attacking him for that.

“Perhaps it is inside baseball and too much minute, but it really relates to the relationship between the minority and most in this committee and the basic rights that we have given the judges of the district courts to the senators with whom we serve,” Durbin told Grassley during the committee hearing. “I thank you for saying what you did this morning.”

“When I have been asked about this outside this room, I said you’ve given your word, like me too,” he said. “I hope it remains the case.”

“Yes,” said Grassley.