{"id":131960,"date":"2025-08-25T12:42:47","date_gmt":"2025-08-25T20:42:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/?p=131960"},"modified":"2025-08-25T12:42:47","modified_gmt":"2025-08-25T20:42:47","slug":"trump-eyes-lawsuit-over-blue-slips-as-grassley-defends-senate-tradition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2025\/08\/25\/trump-eyes-lawsuit-over-blue-slips-as-grassley-defends-senate-tradition\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump Eyes Lawsuit Over Blue Slips as Grassley Defends Senate Tradition"},"content":{"rendered":"

Speaking from the Oval Office, Trump slammed the blue-slip process, which is not a formal Senate rule but a bipartisan tradition dating back more than 100 years. Trump complained the tradition has allowed Democratic senators to veto his picks for vacancies in blue and purple states.<\/p>\n

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Speaking from the Oval Office, Trump slammed the blue-slip process, which is not a formal Senate rule but a bipartisan tradition dating back more than 100 years. Trump complained the tradition has allowed Democratic senators to veto his picks for vacancies in blue and purple states.<\/p>\n

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Speaking from the Oval Office, Trump slammed the blue-slip process, which is not a formal Senate rule but a bipartisan tradition dating back more than 100 years. Trump complained the tradition has allowed Democratic senators to veto his picks for vacancies in blue and purple states. \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Speaking from the Oval Office, Trump slammed the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":131961,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-131960","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-law-com"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/xira.com\/p\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/legal-news-epx4A8.jpg?fit=767%2C505&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131960","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=131960"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131960\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":131975,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131960\/revisions\/131975"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/131961"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=131960"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=131960"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=131960"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}