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20: DOJ, Voting Rights and Garland

#SistersInLaw

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🗓️ 12 June 2021

⏱️ 76 minutes

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The #SistersInLaw convene this week to sound the alarm about former President Trump taking data from members of Congress and others, before looking at the state of the Department of Justice.  Now that Merrick Garland has started to move on voting rights, is he finally living up to expectations of those who hoped he would begin to make the changes our country needs?   

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0:00.0

Welcome back to Hashtag Sisters-in-law. I'm Kimberly Atkins-Store. This week we'll

0:16.3

be talking about the big news that the Trump administration's DOJ obtained data from

0:21.8

members of Congress, their staffers, and their families, Attorney General Merrick Garland

0:27.0

laying out a new approach on voting rights, and Weather Garland is doing enough to restore

0:32.0

the DOJ's credibility. And as always, we'll be answering some of your questions at the

0:37.5

end of the show. But first, I want to chat with you guys. I know we have a lot of big pieces

0:43.6

of news that we're going to discuss in the podcast, but because so much happens, there's

0:47.6

a lot of news that we can't always get to in the podcast. So I just want to sort of throw

0:54.1

something that I saw this week that we won't get a chance to talk more deeply about unfortunately.

0:58.9

And that's the fact that Kim Kardashian has apparently again failed the baby bar. Now,

1:05.7

what is the baby bar? You may ask. I know I asked that the first time I heard this in reference

1:11.4

to Kim Kardashian. I took the bar exam in Massachusetts and New York many years ago, and I went

1:17.8

to law school and never heard of the existence of a baby bar. Turns out, for people who do

1:24.3

not go to law school often because like Ms. Kardashian, they do not have an undergraduate

1:30.4

degree, which is required for most accredited law schools. There is sort of an apprenticeship

1:36.5

program in California where they can kind of work under the wing of enacting attorney,

1:42.3

sort of take some different classes after the first year of this alternative study. You

1:49.0

take this exam, which sounds like it's meant to tell people, hey, maybe this is for you

1:55.2

or maybe it's not. Like, there's your chance after the first year. You don't have to keep

1:58.9

going for several more years in this. But twice now Ms. Kardashian has taken the baby

2:05.3

bar and failed that news broke this week and I feel very bad for her. I know the main

2:13.0

bar exam was pretty hard. I don't know what the baby bar is like, but my condolences.

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