The 'blue slip' process that sometimes still allows U.S. senators to block federal judges was started in the 1950s by Sen. Jim Eastland, a segregationist from Mississippi. Eastland used the process to oppose judges sympathetic to school desegregation.
by Bobby Harrison, Mississippi Today April 11, 2023 The"blue slip" process Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith is using to block the nomination of Scott Colom of Columbus to the federal judiciary began under a previous Mississippi senator who used the process to discriminate against Black Americans. Starting in the 1950s, U.S. Sen.
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