President Donald Trump has been able to have the Republican-controlled Senate confirm the vast bulk of his nominees — with the lone exception of his appointees for U.S. attorney offices.
Now, Politico is reporting that the president is leaning on his party to bulldoze the last remaining obstacle preventing his handpicked prosecutors from being fully confirmed. Trump told a gathering of Senate Republicans Tuesday that the long-standing “blue slip” procedure — in which senators from a nominee’s home state have to submit “blue slips” agreeing to their nomination before it can move forward — was a “problem” that should be scrapped.
“You know, I have 10 U.S. attorneys who are phenomenal,” Trump said. “And the problem is, they’re not going to ever be confirmed, I guess. I put them in, they’ll be there for three or four months, whatever it is, and then they have to leave.”
https://www.alternet.org/trump-gop-prosecutors
They have to leave after three or four months because Trump’s picks suck at being U.S. attorneys.