{"id":8712,"date":"2023-03-24T11:03:58","date_gmt":"2023-03-24T15:03:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/georgetown-law-journal\/?page_id=8712"},"modified":"2025-05-12T11:13:03","modified_gmt":"2025-05-12T15:13:03","slug":"hit-the-road-blue-slips-eliminating-senate-obstructionism-of-federal-judicial-appointments","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/georgetown-law-journal\/submit\/glj-online\/glj-online-vol-111\/hit-the-road-blue-slips-eliminating-senate-obstructionism-of-federal-judicial-appointments\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cHit the Road, Blue Slips\u201d: Eliminating Senate Obstructionism of Federal Judicial Appointments"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p2\"><i>\u201cSimply put, there shouldn\u2019t be one set of rules for . . . Republican nominees under a Republican president and a different set for nominees under a Democratic president.\u201d<\/i><span class=\"s2\"><i><span class=\"Apple-converted-space\"> \n\t\t<span class='js-footnote footnote'>\n\t\t\t<button type='button' aria-controls='abstract_footnote_8712_1' class='footnote_inline_btn js-footnote-toggle-btn' aria-describedby='footnote_btn_text_abstract_footnote_8712_1'>\n\t\t\t\t<sup class='footnote_inline_btn_number'>1<\/sup>\n\t\t\t\t<span id='footnote_btn_text_abstract_footnote_8712_1' class='visually_hide'>Open footnote #1<\/span>\n\t\t\t<\/button>\n\t\n\t\t\t<cite id='abstract_footnote_8712_1' class='footnote_content_cite js-footnote-content'>\n\t\t\t\t<span class='footnote_content_wrap'>\n\t\t\t\t\t<button type='button' class='footnote_content_number js-footnote-toggle-btn' aria-controls='abstract_footnote_8712_1' tabindex='-1'>1<\/button>\n\t\n\t\t\t\t\t<span class='footnote_content_wrap_inner'>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class='footnote_content'>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class='visually_hide'>Footnote #1 content: <\/span><i>Nominations: Hearing Before the S. Comm. on the Judiciary<\/i>, 117th Cong. (Jan. 12, 2022) (statement of Chair Dick Durbin at 07:06\u201307:17), https:\/\/www.judiciary.senate.gov\/meetings\/01\/05\/2022\/nominations [https:\/\/perma.cc\/XZ49-BAAB]. \u00a0\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/span>\n\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class='footnote_close_btn_wrap'>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<button type='button' class='footnote_close_btn js-footnote-close-btn' aria-label='Back to content'>close<\/button>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t<\/span>\n\t\t\t<\/cite>\n\t\t<\/span>\n\t<\/span><\/i><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\">\u2014 Dick Durbin, U.S. Senator, Majority Whip and Chair of the Senate Judiciary Committee, 2021<\/p>\n<p>Continue reading\u00a0<em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/georgetown-law-journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/26\/2023\/03\/Mills-Hit-the-Road-Blue-Slips.pdf\">\u201cHit the Road, Blue Slips\u201d: Eliminating Senate Obstructionism of Federal Judicial Appointments<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cSimply put, there shouldn\u2019t be one set of rules for . . . 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