Needs to be repeated...LAWS DON’T MATTER IN A COUP! If anyone is listening to John Hinderacker (sp) filling in for Laura Ingraham. ...he is explaining how the Democrats are abusing the blue slip process what they are doing is illegal and Trump should be making recess appointments of some hundreds of nominees.
Didn't the GOP try to do the same thing during the O regime?
As I understand it, neither a negative opinion on a blue slip, nor failure to return it, prevents a nominee from being confirmed. Politically, an unfavorable blue slip can have an effect, but a senator who is opposed to a nominee could speak in the senate, go to the press, and vote against, with or without a blue slip.