Durbin Renews Blue Slip Embrace Amid Pressure to Scrap It (2)

Senate Judiciary Committee Chair Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) defended the process of home-state input for judicial nominees that progressives say Republicans are abusing to block President Joe Biden from filling certain trial court seats.

“Many of us—Senator Graham and myself—believe in what’s known as the blue slip process, which basically says that senators will have some say in terms of the judges that are chosen in their states,” Durbin said at a Wednesday committee hearing.

“There are critics of that process, as you know. I want to overcome that criticism with results where we can have bipartisanship in the selection of ...