Senate Majority Leader Thune expresses hesitancy after Trump demands end to ‘Blue Slip scam’ allowing Dem Senators to block GOP appointees

President Donald Trump asked Senate Majority Leader John Thune to terminate the Senate’s “Blue Slip” tradition — an informal courtesy allowing home-state senators from either party to block or withhold approval for certain presidential nominees, such as federal judges and U.S. attorneys, by not returning a “blue slip” form to the Judiciary Committee.