Overview

• On Tuesday Trump publicly admonished Senate Judiciary Committee Chair Chuck Grassley on Truth Social to scrap the blue slip practice
• The blue slip custom grants home-state senators veto power over judicial and U.S. attorney nominees, blocking any nomination if a single senator withholds approval
• More than 254 of Trump’s judicial and U.S. attorney nominations remain pending in the Senate, according to Partnership for Public Service data
• In his post Trump described the custom as 'ancient, and probably unconstitutional,' urging Republicans to bypass it with a 'flick of a pen'
• Senate Republicans face increasing pressure from the White House and reform advocates to modify or abolish the tradition, clearing the nomination backlog