159: Still On The Ledge

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🗓️ 2 December 2023

⏱️ 81 minutes

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Barb McQuade hosts #SistersInLaw to memorialize Justice Sandra Day O’Connor and discuss this week’s legal news. First, they look at the latest developments in Trump’s cases including the rejection of his trial dismissal attempt, his renewed gag order, and a court ruling that he is civilly liable for the events of January 6th. Then, they cover the ruling to stop private action under Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act and debate how the Supreme Court would weigh in, before pivoting to a SEC case heard by SCOTUS that could weaken the administrative state by remanding SEC judgements to federal juries.

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0:00.0	Welcome back to
0:10.6	to H. Sisters-In-law with with Jill Wine Banks, Kimberly Atkins Store, Joyce Vance, and me Barb McQuaid.
0:18.0	We're excited to say that it's the season to get your hashtag sisters in law merch. We have hoodies, t shirts and our brand new mug.
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0:32.0	Now let's get on to the show where this week we'll be discussing the latest in
0:36.0	the Trump cases voting rights and the Supreme Court's hearing on SEC
0:41.0	proceedings. But first I wanted to say, did you folks see that Sandra Day O'Connor has
0:47.6	passed away? Yeah, it was really terrible. Sad news. She was 93 and of course she had been retired from the court for quite some time due to health reasons, not her own initially, but to care for her husband who had Alzheimer's. But I remember I was just a
1:07.5	teenager. I was in high school the first time I ever came to Washington DC. It was actually
1:11.9	the first time I ever flew on a plane.
1:14.0	And I was able to go to the Supreme Court and she was kind enough to speak to the group of students that I was with and she was funny and warm and brilliant and the only request that was made by the court before we talked to her is that we'd not take photographs because she was also battling cancer but she was on the job she
1:34.2	was working and it just really underscored my decision I knew I was pretty sure I
1:39.2	wanted to go to law school that solidified it to having a woman like that break the barriers that she
1:45.1	had to break in order to get to that spot and clear the way for for people like me.
1:51.2	I may not have always agreed with her opinions but I certainly
1:54.6	respected her jurisprudence including the fact that she upheld abortion rights
2:00.4	even though she was a lifelong Republican.
2:02.5	She was an elected official in Arizona.
2:05.2	She was in the state legislature.
2:08.0	But I always respected her skills and her intelligence.
2:13.0	it really is a loss.
2:15.0	Something I've been thinking about so much today is how different the court would look
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