https://www.politico.com/news/2023/05/03/black-caucus-senate-dems-judges-00095159

#BlackCaucus presses #Senate Dems to blow up tradition on #judges
#blueslip

Jennifer Rubin: Senate Democrats need to play hardball

"Far too restrained and deferential, Durbin has refused to alter practices such as the 'blue slip,' which allows home-state senators to nix the president’s judicial nominees, although he has beseeched Republicans not to abuse the practice. Durbin also hasn’t yet conducted hearings on the disastrous effects of the Supreme Court’s ruling in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization and related abortion bans, nor has he held hearings on a mandatory ethics code for judges — although he has promised hearings on revelations about Justice Clarence Thomas’s failure to disclose luxurious travel gifts and real estate sales. Then again, Senate Democrats as a whole haven’t pushed Durbin, so one cannot blame him alone for his timidity."

#uspolitics #ussenate #judiciary #blueslip
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2023/04/20/durbin-hardball-judges

The #Democrats are just absurd. When #Obama was president the #GOP used the #blueslip rule to block over 100 of his judicial appointments. Then when #Trump was president & the #Dems tried to use it in the #GOP controlled #senate McConnell ignored the rule so the Dems couldn’t stop any of the trump appointments
Now the Dems are letting the gop blue slip Biden appointments again
What the hell!
It’s like the Dems are actually working for the gop sometimes