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发布时间：2025-09-11 16:00:04 来源：都市天下脉观察 作者：探索

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Alina Habba tears into Senate lawmakers over 'blue slip' tradition: 'I won't be intimidated'

Acting U.S. Attorney for the District of New Jersey Alina Habba reacts to Senate lawmakers upholding the 'blue slip' tradition regarding judicial nominations to U.S. circuit and district courts.

Alina Habba snapped back at Senate lawmakers on Sunday, asserting she "won’t be intimidated," days after a federal judge ruled her appointment as acting U.S. attorney for New Jersey was unlawful.

At the center of the fight is the Senate’s blue slip tradition — a bipartisan custom, applied to both federal judges and U.S. attorneys, that allows home-state senators to signal or withhold approval for the president’s picks. 

President Donald Trump has argued the practice prevents "great Republican candidates" from receiving fair consideration by enabling Democrats to obstruct his appointments.

"This tradition that Sen. [Chuck] Grassley is upholding effectively prevents anybody in a blue state from going through to the Senate to then be voted on," Habba told "Sunday Morning Futures" host Maria Bartiromo, slamming the process as an unfair blockade.

TRUMP EXPLOITS LOOPHOLES TO KEEP ALINA HABBA IN US ATTORNEY ROLE, TRIGGERING COURT CLASH

Alina Habba delivers remarks before being sworn in as the interim U.S. attorney for New Jersey at the White House on March 28, 2025. Habba is pushing back against the Senate's "blue slip" tradition for nominees. (Andrew Harnik/Getty Images)

"Senator Booker and Senator Kim had absolutely every right to vote no for me for the U.S. attorney position, but I had the right, as the nominee, to get in front of Senate and to be voted on, to be vetted. I never even got there," Habba said.

New Jersey’sDemocratic Sens. Cory Booker and Andy Kim both objected to Habba being in the role, meaning her nomination would not likely move forward.

GRASSLEY REBUKES TRUMP'S PRESSURE TO 'HAVE THE COURAGE' TO SPEED UP NOMINATIONS

Sen. Chuck Grassley has defended the long-standing "blue slip" tradition as President Donald Trump calls for it to be abandoned. (Daniel Heuer/Bloomberg via Getty Images)

Judiciary Chair Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, has defended the custom and refused to back down, drawing ire from both Habba and Trump.

"Chuck Grassley, who I got re-elected to the U.S. Senate when he was down, by a lot, in the Great State of Iowa, could solve the ‘Blue Slip’ problem we are having with respect to the appointment of Highly Qualified Judges and U.S. Attorneys, with a mere flick of the pen," Trump wrote in a Truth Social post in late July. "Democrats like Schumer, Warner, Kaine, Booker, Schiff, and others, SLEAZEBAGS ALL, have an ironclad stoppage of Great Republican Candidates."

Grassley responded to Trump's criticism and calls for the blue slip tradition to be "abandon[ed]" last month, saying he was "disappointed" by Trump’s posts regarding the custom. 

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