Trump threatens lawsuit over 'blue slips' as top GOP senator bucks demand to bend Senate rules for nominees

President Donald Trump vowed to sue over a Senate practice that allows a lawmaker to block his U.S. attorney and district court nominees, as the top Republican on the Senate Judiciary Committee stood firm against doing away with the tradition. Trump homed in on the "blue slip" tradition in the Senate, which effectively gives Senate Republicans and Democrats the ability to veto district court and U.S. attorney nominees in their home states. His desire to see the practice done away with comes as Senate Democrats have stood in the way of his nominees making their way through the upper chamber in