President Donald Trump on Monday threatened a lawsuit over the Senate’s century-old "blue slip" tradition that he says makes it "impossible" for him to appoint a judge or U.S. attorney. Trump made the ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump says the Senate’s century-old tradition of allowing home state senators to sign off on some federal judge and U.S. attorney nominees is “old and outdated.” ...

NORTH PROVIDENCE, R.I. (WPRI) — Six candidates have filed paperwork to run in the Senate District 4 special election to replace the late Senate President Dominick Ruggerio, who died in April after a ...

When did it become acceptable for the United States Senate to be overwhelmingly dominated by individuals qualifying for Medicare and Social Security? Our Founding Fathers were in their 20s when they ...

Rep. Al Green (D-Texas) is urging senators to rename the Russell Senate Office Building on Capitol Hill because of former Sen. Richard Russell’s history of opposing civil rights and avowing white ...

President Donald Trump is once again upping the pressure on Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley to do away with a century-old Senate tradition that places some constraints on the ...