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210: Risible

#SistersInLaw

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🗓️ 16 November 2024

⏱️ 73 minutes

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Summary

Jill Wine-Banks hosts #SistersInLaw to investigate Trump’s cabinet appointees, exposing Matt Gaetz's improprieties and threat to the rule of law, Pete Hegseth’s troublingly light resume and lack of executive experience, and RFK Jr.’s advocacy of conspiracy-laden medical misinformation. Then, the #Sisters discuss the future of Jack Smith’s prosecutions, looking at what we can expect from his final brief and the national security ramifications of the dangerous precedent Trump has set by failing to protect classified materials.  They also debate the ability of the SCOTUS to serve as a check on the presidency and emphasize the role lower courts' have in the battle for our democracy.

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Transcript

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0:00.0

Welcome back to hashtag Sisters-in-law with Joyce Fance, Barb McQuaid, Kimberly Atkins

0:17.9

Store, and me, Jill Wine Banks.

0:20.8

And don't forget, we love seeing you in our

0:24.3

t-shirts and other merch. So check out our merch store. It really will look good on you,

0:30.1

and it'll make us really happy. Just go to politicon.com slash merch. Now let's get on to the show where we're going to be discussing some really important

0:41.0

topics today.

0:42.4

The first will be Trump's cabinet appointments, unusual as they are.

0:48.5

And Jack Smith's filing in the 11th Circuit in connection with the Marilago documents case. And finally, we're

0:56.1

going to talk about, will this Supreme Court be a check on Donald Trump? But before we get to those

1:02.3

heavier topics, I want to talk about the new blue sky. We're all there now, and we're hoping

1:09.0

that all of you are going to follow us there. But let's talk about

1:12.6

it. Kim, you want to go first? Yeah. So I'm, I'm in the midst of a social media break.

1:19.6

But, you know, I had a lot of people asking me like, why aren't you on Blue Sky? All the cool

1:24.4

kids are going to Blue Sky now. I'm like, okay, I'm still figuring out how to use threads, but okay, like, I'm, you know, I'll drag me. So I do have a space over there, but I'm

1:34.1

still figuring out how to use it. Barb, you get your, you seem to be a pro. Give us some tips.

1:38.5

Yeah, I don't know if I'm a pro, but I did sign up for Blue Sky this week. And it really feels like, you know, the early days of Twitter that

1:47.7

people are there, they're sharing, they're engaging. And it's, you know, minus the toxic stew

1:53.8

that we're seeing on Twitter these days or X or whatever it is. So I really like it. And one of the

1:59.9

really nice features are these starter

2:01.5

packs. Have you seen this? And in fact, our producer created a starter pack for all the

2:06.6

Politicon hosts, including us. So you can just search for that starter pack. We'll put a link to it

2:11.1

in the show notes. And you can either follow everybody in the starter pack, or if you open it,

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