re: Senate confirms Trump pick to 9th Circuit -- Feinstein and Harris oppose

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The confirmation of California lawyer Kenneth Lee marked the first time neither home-state senator had returned a blue slip, a Senate tradition in which the home-state senator gives their opinion of the nominee, the Hill reported.

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So does the author of this article think this position at court is only ruling on laws that affect California? Not the way it works.

Did Montana's, Idaho, Nevada, and Arizona's senators get blue slips as well? Or is this something that liberal Californians thought they got to control over the rest of the 9th circuit jurisdiction? Or is it simply that the "home" state of the judge? That's crap, how do you get federal appeals court experience in states with no federal appeals court?

I think we can agree that this "blue slip" nonsense is just another in a long line of ways that the coastal/high population states have systematically wrested power from the less populous states. It has no place in the Senate.