From the campus of Hillsdale College in Hillsdale, Michigan, this is the Radio Free Hillsdale Hour, bringing the activity and education of the college to listeners across the country.

Here's your host, Scott Bertram.

Hello again, everybody, and welcome in to another edition of The Radio Free Hillsdale Hour.

On this edition, we'll talk with Adam Carrington from Hillsdale College about the possible elimination of blue slips in the Senate.

Noah Rothman of Commentary Magazine joins us to discuss his new book, Unjust.

Gary Wolfram from Hillsdale College will explain to us the Laffer Curve.

And finally, Victor Davis Hansen will be by to talk about his new release, The Case for Trump.

But first, we're joined now by Dr. Adam Carrington, assistant professor of politics here at Hillsdale College.

You can find them on Twitter at Carrington AM.

Dr. Carrington, thanks for joining us on the Radio Free Hillsdale Hour.

Thanks for having me. Glad to be here.

So there is a set of tradition that appears to potentially be on its way out the door,

and that's something called the blue slips, a blue slip process for

judicial nominees. And some people listening probably have no idea what this entails whatsoever.

So we start there. What exactly is this blue slip process for judicial nominees? And I've seen a lot of

bad jokes about blue slip getting the pink slip that's been going around.

And what it is is it's basically senators are asked if there is a judicial nominee that originates from their state.

Senators are asked whether they approve or disapprove of that nomination and whether they think that nomination should go through.

That's been the consistent nature of it.

It's called a blue slip because the original slip in which you would mark your approval, disapproval, and maybe give reasons for it, was itself blue.

That's not the case anymore, but the name is continued. And so that when

judicial nominees come up, if the nominee originates in your state as a senator, you declare,

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