Democrats: Chuck Grassley ignoring Senate tradition to ram through Trump’s judicial nominees

By Melissa Quinn

Published January 24, 2018 6:29pm ET

Democrats: Chuck Grassley ignoring Senate tradition to ram through Trump’s judicial nominees — Last year, Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, said he was ending the blue-slip tradition in the Senate Judiciary Committee, drawing complaints from Democrats. On Wednesday, those complaints surfaced again when Grassley took up the nomination of Michael Brennan, a Milwaukee, Wis., lawyer who is nominated to the 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, even though Sen. Tammy Baldwin, D-Wis., never turned in her blue slip. "I really object to this," said Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., the top Democrat on the committee (pictured above). "The Senate, unlike the House, has preserved strong rights for those in the minority, and the blue slip has been one of those traditions. It appears that is no longer the case." (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais, File) | Pablo Martinez Monsivais

Democrats on the Senate Judiciary Committee on Wednesday complained that committee chairman Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, was ramming through President Trump’s judicial nominees by ignoring the tradition of allowing senators from the home state of each nominee to weigh in on those nominees before starting committee work.

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