Top GOP senator defies Trump demand to bend Senate rules for his court picks

The top Republican on the Senate Judiciary Committee is again standing firm against President Donald Trump’s demand that Senate tradition be changed to ram through his district court and U.S. attorney nominees.Senate Judiciary Chair Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, came under fire from Trump again late Sunday night over the Senate’s "blue slips," a longstanding practice in the upper chamber that the president wants to be done away with.A blue slip effectively gives Senate Republicans and Democrats the ability to veto district court and U.S. attorney nominees in their home states.TRUMP TELLS GRASSLEY TO