The NYT editorial board published various op-eds over the past eight years taking different positions on 'blue slips', a Senate procedure that empowers the minority party to block nominees.
editorial board published three op-eds across the Obama, Trump, and Biden presidencies on"blue slips", a Senate procedure that allows a Senator to block a president's judicial nomination if the nominee is from his or her state.
In an editorial published Monday, titled"How to Stop a Senator From Blocking a Federal Judge", the Times argued that Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Ill., should use his power as chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee to unilaterally end the practice. "Now that Republicans control both the White House and Congress, top party officials, including Mitch McConnell, the Senate majority leader, are itching to eliminate the last remaining tool the minority party has to influence a president’s picks for the federal courts — the so-called blue slip," they wrote at the time.
The piece was titled"A Hypocritical Battle Over Blue Slips". In it, the editorial board did concede,"Still, the blue slip is no longer the answer."
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