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When there was a Republican president and GOP-led Senate, Democrats said "blue slips" were key in the judicial confirmation process. Not now.

President Donald Trump inherited more than 120 vacancies on the lower federal courts and one Supreme Court vacancy when he took office on January 20, 2017. Trump made filling the Supreme Court vacancy one of his first priorities, and Neil Gorsuch was confirmed by the Senate in time to join the Court for the end of its 2016–2017 term. Now the President’s focus has turned to the appellate and district court vacancies. The Senate confirmed Trump’s first appeals court nominee, Amul Thapar, to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit on May 25.

The Senate Judiciary Committee on Thursday advanced one of President Biden's federal appeals court nominees over the objections of Republicans who blasted the White House for disregarding the approval of the seat's home-state senators.

Know, floeftiating above politit least in your scholarship, this kicks back to the democratic party and the kind of hardball they want to play, not necessarily anything that is uniquely judicial? >> well, i guess i would say there are laws that cover these procedures as well and many of those rules in the senate have themselves been relaxed by mitch mcconnell in a form of games man ship where he's denied the capacity of senators to say, you know, these are the judges whom we would recommend for our own jurs dirk jurisdiction. i would dplofloat that. >> like blue slips? >> yes. >> it was made u...