The Hill: Congressional Black Caucus vows to oppose Senate Judiciary’s consideration of two judges over ‘blue slip’ policy
This excerpt is from a piece that originally ran on July 12, 2023.
The blue slip policy has discriminatory roots; it was used by segregationist lawmakers to undermine progress made to guarantee civil rights for Black Americans. Lawmakers created the process to prevent school integration after Brown v. Board of Education, according to the Alliance for Justice.