232: Bend The Knee For King Trump
#SistersInLaw
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🗓️ 19 April 2025
⏱️ 89 minutes
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Joyce Vance hosts #SistersInLaw to explain the battle the courts are waging against the Trump administration to defend immigrants' rights, the judicial branch’s essential role in maintaining the rule of law, and why protecting due process in deportation cases is so important. Then, the #Sisters discuss the challenge to birthright citizenship moving through the courts after Trump’s EO banning it, why it is such a critical part of our country’s formation, and how nationwide injunctions can keep the executive in check when it has run amok. They also fire off on MAGA’s war on the freedom of our universities, and look ahead to their fight to stay independent of federal control.
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome back to hashtag sisters-in-law with Kimberly Atkins store, Jill Wine Banks, |
| 0:14.7 | Barb McQuaid, and me, Joyce fans. So y'all, our resistance t-shirts, I know that they've been |
| 0:20.7 | sold out, they're finally back in stock. |
| 0:23.4 | Go to politicon.com slash merch to get yours now. |
| 0:27.0 | When I was out at the March in Birmingham a couple of weekends ago, I saw a lot of friends wearing our resistance t-shirts. |
| 0:35.2 | Get one for your next protest rally too. And now let's get on to the show |
| 0:40.2 | where we'll discuss the courts, the president, and the deportation cases, the Supreme Court's |
| 0:45.8 | decision to hear the birthright citizenship case. We'll discuss what the actual issue is. You may |
| 0:51.5 | be surprised. And finally, Harvard's refusal to bend the knee to Trump. |
| 0:56.3 | We could all use some of that energy this week. But before we get started, y'all, I thought I |
| 1:01.7 | would ask you about Easter plans and your favorite Easter family traditions. I mean, |
| 1:06.2 | no surprise here that good Jewish girl that I am, I still love dyed eggs. And we've always done |
| 1:12.0 | Easter baskets for our kids. One of the blessings of being a mixed marriage is getting to |
| 1:16.6 | celebrate all holidays. But my kids are a little bit too big now, and I'm looking for sort of new |
| 1:23.7 | traditions. This year, Barb, you're going to hate me, but my plan involves hollow chocolate |
| 1:29.0 | bunnies and adult beverages. I won't talk too much about this since we're a PG-rated family |
| 1:34.3 | podcast, but I'd love to know what y'all have planned. What are y'all going to do? Kim, I see you |
| 1:39.5 | laughing. Because you are hilarious. So first of all, you can take hollow chocolate bunnies and pour white Russians into them and call it an Easter brunch. |
| 1:48.8 | See, this is why I love you. |
| 1:50.1 | Sacrilege. |
| 1:51.8 | This is why I love you. |
| 1:53.5 | Oh, come on. |
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