Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, said on Wednesday that he was “offended” and “disappointed” by President Donald Trump’s attacks against him on social media this week.

Trump on social media Tuesday evening hit out at Grassley and other longtime legislators on the panel for continuing the “blue slip” tradition that allows senators to veto nominees to district courts and U.S. attorneys’ offices in their home states.

“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 on Truth Social.

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