President Donald Trump on Tuesday railed against the long-standing tradition for home state senators to have essentially veto power over U.S. attorney and district court nominee picks and called on U.S. Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, chair of the Senate Judiciary Committee, to abandon the process.
When Grassley was last chair of the committee, during the first Trump administration, he got rid of the so-called blue slip process for circuit court nominees.
Bloomberg Law has Grassley ‘Offended’ by Trump Call to End Nominations Custom
The century-old blue slip custom involves senators marking a blue form to indicate support for a judicial or US attorney nominee.
While the Judiciary Committee’s Republican majority led by Grassley during the first Trump administration eliminated home-state senator sign off for circuit court nominees, the practice was retained for district court picks and for US attorneys.
9th Circuit Pick Pressed on Originalism Comment, Constitutionality of Same-Sex Marriage | Law.com
Senate Judiciary Committee Democrats on Wednesday pressed federal appeals court nominee Eric Tung on his recent comments questioning the constitutionality of same sex marriage and supporting state-legislature supremacy over election law, a controversial legal theory that the U.S. Supreme Court rejected in 2023.
New SCOTUS Clerk Class Has More Women, Experience Than in 2000
The OT 2000 clerk class wasn’t very balanced in terms of gender. Of the 35 clerks, 25 were men and 10 were women, making for a 71% to 29% split.
By contrast, the OT 2025 class of 38 clerks consists of 20 men and 18 women. At a 53% to 47% split, that’s fairly close to even representation.
Over the past 25 years, the representation of women in the legal profession has increased dramatically—and it’s reflected in the ranks of Supreme Court clerks. Women aren’t just entering the legal profession; they’re making progress in its highest echelons.
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