Mid-Day Update: December 12, 2025
The Great America Show
Fawcett Strategies
4.7 • 1.8K Ratings
🗓️ 12 December 2025
⏱️ 6 minutes
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John Fawcett breaks down today's top stories, including President Trump's criticisms of Senate Republicans regarding judicial nominees and the controversial blue slip tradition, the lavish spending of AOC, the actions of Minnesota Governor Tim Waltz regarding immigration, and the potential for escalating tensions with Russia as outlined by NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte.
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| 0:44.1 | Hello, everybody. I'm John Fawson with this Great America Show Midday Update for Friday, December 12th. Happy Friday, folks. President Trump tearing in to once again Senate Republicans and their obstruction of his judicial and U.S. attorney nominees denouncing the blue-slip tradition as unconstitutional |
| 0:56.0 | and a roadblock that is effectively handed the confirmation process over to the Democrats in key states. |
| 1:03.0 | The blue slip practice currently functions as an informal veto power for home state senators. |
| 1:08.0 | The current Senate Judiciary Committee policy requires positive blue slips |
| 1:12.0 | from both home state U.S. senators as the nominee receives a committee hearing and a potential |
| 1:17.9 | vote. The failure to return a positive blue slips or returning a negative one from even one of |
| 1:24.5 | the two home state senators is typically enough to stop the nomination process |
| 1:28.7 | from moving forward to continue in the committee. The blue slip policy is a tradition in a matter |
| 1:33.9 | of the Senate Judiciary Committee chairman's policy, not a formal Senate rule. Chuck Grassley, |
| 1:39.2 | who runs the whole entire process, said he's committed to honoring the blue slip tradition |
| 1:44.1 | for district court |
| 1:44.9 | nominees and U.S. attorneys. |
| 1:47.0 | Blue slips are making it impossible to get great Republican judges and U.S. attorneys approved |
| 1:51.6 | to serve in any state where there's even a single Democrat senator, says President Trump. |
| 1:57.1 | They say no, then it's over for that very well-qualified Republican candidate. |
| 2:01.7 | Only really far-left Democrats can be approved. |
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