233: Are We There Yet?

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🗓️ 26 April 2025

⏱️ 62 minutes

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Barb McQuade hosts #SistersInLaw to emphasize the importance of the oath to the Constitution and explain the arrest of a WI judge charged with obstructing federal immigration enforcement in the context of federalism. Then, the #Sisters discuss the status of the ban on trans individuals in the military going through the courts and lay out the danger that exclusion and alienation of the people willing to serve poses for our armed forces. They also review the partial injunction blocking Trump’s EO on voting and delve into how his administration’s war on our democracy puts our most fundamental rights at risk..

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0:00.0	Welcome back to hashtag sisters-in-law with Kimberly Atkins Store, Jill Wine Banks, Joyce Vance, and me, Barb McQuaid.
0:19.3	The big news for us this week is our new resistance mini-tote.
0:24.1	It is now ready for pre-order. I am told that the mini-toat is the hot new item in the world.
0:29.7	I don't know about such things. But that's what I'm told. And you can get your own resistance mini-toat by going to
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0:41.7	it's cooler than the Trader Joe's ones. Like the Trader Joe's ones are over. The resistance ones are
0:47.9	the hot topics. So say me, wait to see Anna Wintockering one. It'll be on. Well, Kim is our fashion
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0:55.6	take my advice from her. Get your sisters-in-law resistance mini-tote now. Today, we will be talking
1:02.9	about the latest in deportation news, Trump's efforts to block transgender soldiers in the military,
1:09.5	and his new executive order creating chaos in
1:12.9	voting. But first, I want to ask each of my sisters something. Do you each remember when you
1:20.3	took the oath to become a lawyer? Because, you know, there's a movement of foot on May 1st,
1:27.3	which is Law Day, for lawyers to reaffirm their oath to serve the public as a member of the legal profession.
1:36.0	Do any of you remember the first time you took the oath to become a lawyer?
1:41.4	I'd certainly, certainly do. I was sworn in to the bar of the Great Commonwealth
1:46.4	of Massachusetts. And the swearing-in ceremony very wonderfully took place in Faniel Hall,
1:53.7	the old hall that dates back to Revolutionary Times that sits right in downtown Boston. My mom was there, as were several of
2:05.5	my friends. They broke it up according to the alphabet. So it was like A through D or whatever.
2:11.2	And I was there. And I specifically remember getting chills as I raised my hand and recited that oath to become a member
2:20.5	of the legal profession and an officer of the court. That meant so much to me. I still think about it.
2:25.7	I actually mentioned it also when I talked to former attorney general Scott Harshberger on my other
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