Rachel Bovard

And I think you have a much harder case to make that Republicans wouldn't support U.S.

attorneys.

wouldn't support enforcing the law by filling these slots.

So I do think it's a much harder case to make on the blue slip side.

I see these as separate questions.

And again, I find the blue slips so much harder to defend because you've already nuked the filibuster on the executive side.

There is no filibuster for confirmations anymore.

So why are you standing on custom and tradition once you've already gotten rid of minority rights?

Yes.

I say this, you know, having, again, spent a lot of time with these senators behind closed doors for years.

That is how they treat it.

All through the Biden administration, that was what the conversations in the Republican conference were like.

They never talked about Donald Trump.

They never talked about the base of their party.

They really do think that, you know, not every Republican senator, but a good portion of them

think that once we get through this Trump moment, we can just go back to business as usual, which is transacting with Democrats, making decisions for big corporations, all this stuff.

There's a lot of them that really do think that.

People forget the Senate in many ways is a lagging indicator of the rest of the country.

And a little bit of that is by design, right?

The founders kind of set it up to be slow that way.