{"id":8616,"date":"2025-04-28T19:46:45","date_gmt":"2025-04-28T19:46:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/ny-prosecutor-nominees-will-remain-on-ice-grassley-says\/"},"modified":"2025-04-28T19:46:45","modified_gmt":"2025-04-28T19:46:45","slug":"ny-prosecutor-nominees-will-remain-on-ice-grassley-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/ny-prosecutor-nominees-will-remain-on-ice-grassley-says\/","title":{"rendered":"NY prosecutor nominees will remain on ice, Grassley says"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Senate Judiciary Chair Chuck Grassley said Monday he won&#8217;t advance two of President Donald Trump&#8217;s U.S. attorney picks after they ran into opposition from one of their home-state senators.<\/p>\n<p>Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer said earlier this month he <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2025\/04\/16\/schumer-moves-to-block-trumps-top-prosecutors-00292728\" target=\"_blank\">would not return his blue slip<\/a> for Jay Clayton&#8217;s nomination to serve as U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York or Joseph Nocella Jr.&#8217;s in the Eastern District.<\/p>\n<p>The blue slip isn&#8217;t a Senate rule but instead a precedent that allows senators to effectively block the approval of nominees to U.S. district courts and U.S. attorney&#8217;s offices in their states. <\/p>\n<p>Asked if Schumer&#8217;s objections meant that the two nominees won&#8217;t advance, Grassley said in a brief interview, &#8220;We&#8217;re going to honor the blue slip.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Senate Judiciary Chair Chuck Grassley said Monday he won&#8217;t advance two of President Donald Trump&#8217;s U.S. attorney picks after they ran into opposition from one of their home-state senators. Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer said earlier this month he would not return his blue slip for Jay Clayton&#8217;s nomination to serve as U.S. attorney for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8616","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-congress"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8616","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=8616"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8616\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8616"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8616"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8616"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}