{"id":14548,"date":"2025-10-17T11:20:20","date_gmt":"2025-10-17T11:20:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/trump-slams-stupid-and-outdated-blue-slip-rule-for-nominees\/"},"modified":"2025-10-17T11:20:20","modified_gmt":"2025-10-17T11:20:20","slug":"trump-slams-stupid-and-outdated-blue-slip-rule-for-nominees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/trump-slams-stupid-and-outdated-blue-slip-rule-for-nominees\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump slams &#8216;stupid and outdated&#8217; blue slip rule for nominees"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>President Trump on Thursday yet again criticized the &ldquo;blue slip&rdquo; practice, which allows home-state senators to veto district court judge and U.S. attorney nominees. Trump, in a post on his Truth Social platform, said he has eight &ldquo;Highly Respected&rdquo; U.S. attorney nominees that &ldquo;will not be confirmed for their positions in various Highly Consequential States&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/administration\/5559965-trump-slams-blue-slip-rule-nominees\/\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Trump on Thursday yet again criticized the &ldquo;blue slip&rdquo; practice, which allows home-state senators to veto district court judge and U.S. attorney nominees. Trump, in a post on his Truth Social platform, said he has eight &ldquo;Highly Respected&rdquo; U.S. attorney nominees that &ldquo;will not be confirmed for their positions in various Highly Consequential States&#8230;Read [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":14549,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14548","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14548","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14548"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14548\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14549"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14548"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14548"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14548"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}