Sarah Binder, senior fellow in Governance Studies, explains the Republican-led Senate Judiciary Committee’s upcoming hearing on President Trump’s nominee for a seat on the Federal Court of Appeals for the Eight Circuit. By holding this hearing, the chair of the committee is ignoring the “blue slip” practice. Binder explains what surpassing the blue slip process means for this nomination and the precedent it sets for future nominations.

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