Todd Blanch

It's, yes, it's a very easy way to explain this in two separate ways.

One is a nominated U.S.

attorney like Jay Clayton for the Southern District of New York.

This is a brilliant lawyer who ran Sullivan and Cromwell, who was the confirmed commissioner of the SEC under Trump 45.

No issues, no blemishes, was on the board of Apollo after he left being commissioner of the SEC.

President Trump nominated him to be the U.S.

attorney in Manhattan.

Senator Schumer and Senator Gillibrand did not give him the courtesy of a call or an interview.

Okay?

And under the rules, if they don't return blue slips, Jay just stays there.

He can't go forward out of the committee.

He can't go to a vote.

They wouldn't give him the courtesy of an interview.

Okay?

And so what has to happen is then you have to have this system where the judges have to vote you in.

And they voted Jay in, so we're okay in Manhattan.

But you go across the river to New Jersey, every single member of the bench, with the exception of two, were nominated by Democrats.

Again, it's because of the blue slip.

Because if President Trump wants to put...

a person as a district court judge, both senators have to return blue slips.