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President Donald Trump on Tuesday pressured Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-IA) to scrap the “blue slip” tradition and push through his judicial nominees. The president fumed over the Democratic Party’s ability to block his “Highly Qualified Judges and U.

President Donald Trump called for the end of the Senate’s “blue slip” policy on Tuesday, renewing debate on the 108-year-old