{"id":16555,"date":"2025-12-11T16:21:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-11T16:21:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/trump-pressures-thune-over-blue-slips-attorney-nominations\/"},"modified":"2025-12-11T16:21:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-11T16:21:07","slug":"trump-pressures-thune-over-blue-slips-attorney-nominations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/trump-pressures-thune-over-blue-slips-attorney-nominations\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump pressures Thune over &#8216;blue slips,&#8217; attorney nominations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>President Trump on Thursday pressed Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-S.D.) to end the chamber&#8217;s blue slip tradition, which Trump complained has gotten in the way of confirming many of his judge and attorney nominees. Trump, in a post on Truth Social, bemoaned that blue slips were making it &#8220;impossible&#8221; to get &#8220;well qualified Republican&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/administration\/5643989-trump-thune-blue-slips\/\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Trump on Thursday pressed Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-S.D.) to end the chamber&#8217;s blue slip tradition, which Trump complained has gotten in the way of confirming many of his judge and attorney nominees. Trump, in a post on Truth Social, bemoaned that blue slips were making it &#8220;impossible&#8221; to get &#8220;well qualified Republican&#8230;Read [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":16556,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16555","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\/16555","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=16555"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16555\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16556"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16555"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16555"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16555"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}