"...Trump threatens legal action to expand authority over Senate in panicked plea
President Donald Trump threatened to pursue legal action Wednesday to expand his authority by terminating the Senate tradition known as the “blue slip,” which allows for senators to block a judicial nominee from the president in some instances.
“It's a horrible thing, blue slips is a horrible thing because I have the right to pick judges, and I have the right to pick U.S. attorneys, and this takes away the right from me!” Trump said Wednesday during a breakfast for Republican senators in Washington, D.C. “I think we're going to go to court on it and we'll see what happens in court.”..."
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