The Hill: Democrats weigh expanding lower courts after Trump blitz
This excerpt is from an op-ed that originally ran on January 30, 2021.
“I think one of the tests is in the places where there is not a Democratic senator or in which there has been a tradition of blue-slipping district judges, how tough we’re prepared to be about not accepting bad faith failures to return a blue slip and just driving the nominees through,” said Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.), a senior member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, during an Alliance for Justice event.