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WASHINGTON, DC - JULY 1: (EDITOR'S NOTE: Alternative Crop) Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-SD) pauses while speaking to reporters off the Senate floor after the Senate passes President Donald Trump's so-called "One, Big, Beautiful Bill," Act at the U.S. Capitol Building on July 1, 2025 in Washington, DC. U.S. Vice President J.D. Vance was the tie-breaking vote as President Donald Trump's so-called "One, Big, Beautiful Bill," Act passes in the Senate. (Photo by Andrew Harnik/Getty Images)

Senate Majority Leader Thune expresses hesitancy after Trump demands end to ‘Blue Slip scam’ allowing Dem Senators to block GOP appointees

President Donald Trump asked Senate Majority Leader John Thune to terminate the Senate’s “Blue Slip” tradition — an informal courtesy allowing home-state senators from either party to block or withhold approval for certain presidential nominees, such as federal judges and U.S. attorneys, by not returning a “blue slip” form to the Judiciary Committee.

A crest of the Federal Bureau of Investigation is seen 03 August 2007 inside the J. Edgar Hoover FBI Building in Washington, DC. AFP PHOTO/Mandel NGAN (Photo credit should read MANDEL NGAN/AFP via Getty Images)

Patel shutters ‘corrupt’ FBI unit that previously spied on GOP senators, firing agents involved

FBI Director Kash Patel announced that the FBI has officially dismantled a public corruption unit, known as CR-15, in addition to firing a number of agents connected to previous misconduct involving surveillance of Republican senators — outed by a recent report by the Senate Judiciary Committee.

(Background) WASHINGTON, DC - OCTOBER 6: Sen. Bill Hagerty (R-TN) (C), accompanied by (L-R) Sen. Marsha Blackburn (R-TN), Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-IA), Sen. Cynthia Lummis (R-WY), and Sen. Ron Johnson (R-WI), speaks to reporters on Capitol Hill on October 6, 2025 in Washington, DC. Grassley has released a document he says came from a whistleblower, alleging that the FBI subpoenaed the phone records of eight Republican senators during an investigation.(Photo by Andrew Harnik/Getty Images) / (R) WASHINGTON, DC - OCTOBER 6: Sen. Ron Johnson (R-WI) (C), accompanied by (L-R) Sen. Bill Hagerty (R-TN), Sen. Marsha Blackburn (R-TN), Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-IA), Sen. Tommy Tuberville (R-AL), and Sen. Cynthia Lummis (R-WY), holds up documents as he speaks to reporters on Capitol Hill on October 6, 2025 in Washington, DC. Grassley has released a document he says came from a whistleblower, alleging that the FBI subpoenaed the phone records of eight Republican senators during an investigation.(Photo by Andrew Harnik/Getty Images)

Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Grassley: Biden’s FBI targeted 8 GOP senators’ personal cell phones in ‘Arctic Frost’ probe

A newly obtained FBI document has revealed that the agency, under the Biden administration, targeted the personal cell phones of eight Republican senators and one Republican House member as part of its “Arctic Frost” investigation, Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley said on Monday.