Rachel Bovard
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first heard Nov 2025
last heard 10 Mar
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But the blue slip is separate from that.
Right.
The blue slip is simply about putting these nominees on the floor.
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.
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