Eric Tietzel
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first heard Dec 2025
last heard 16 Dec
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Bannon`s War Room · Episode 5001: Saving The Country And Keeping The Christian West · 16 Dec 2025
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Hey, Steve, go to the website, americarenewing.com.
You'll find it right there.
Yeah, just when you thought you couldn't be any more dissonant by the Republican Congress, they come and give you something else just in time for Christmas.
A blue slip is this – it's a tradition.
It's not found in the Senate rules.
It's definitely not found in the Constitution.
It's just a convention that's been in place for 100 years.
And what it says is that when you're considering an executive branch nominee for a federal judgeship or for a federal prosecutor in a district like the Eastern District of Virginia, for example, you got to go to the home state senator and give them a blue piece of paper and ask for a thumbs up or a thumbs down for your nominee.
The reason that they did this for several years is because you had the filibuster, right?
And so it was a political practice that helped you to gauge whether or not your nominee was going to have the votes they needed to get through.
And it was also in an era where there was a general sense of collegiality, right?
It wasn't the uproarious politics of our time.
We know we're now living in a world where the politics are different.
We've seen the filibuster go away when it comes to nominations.
And yet, despite all of those changes, Senate Republicans are remaining steadfastly committed to this blue slip, which is now essentially a veto that a single Democratic senator can have over one of President Trump's nominees, just like that.
And this has disastrous effects.
Lindsay Halligan was the nominee
for the Eastern District of Virginia, she was prosecuting Comey.
She was prosecuting Letitia James.
But because Mark Warner and Tim Kaine returned a negative blue slip on her, Chuck Grassley and John Thune declined to move her nomination through the process.
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