236: Snake On A Plane
#SistersInLaw
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🗓️ 17 May 2025
⏱️ 72 minutes
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Barb McQuade hosts #SistersInLaw to discuss the ethical and national security implications of Qatar gifting Trump a plane, and explain the proper way for public officials to handle foreign gifts to ensure its not a bribe. Then, they break down the arguments ostensibily being made to the SCOTUS concerning birthright citizenship, and why the case increasing seems like its about the legality of the nationwide injunctions acting as a check on Trump’s presidential powers. They also shed light on why Ed Martin is out as the interim U.S. Attorney for D.C. and Fox News Jeanine Pirro has taken his place.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome back to hashtag sisters-in-law with Jill Weinbanks, Kimberly Atkins Store, and me, Barb McQuaid. |
| 0:19.0 | Joyce will be back next week, and we already miss her. And we do have |
| 0:22.7 | some big news. The new resistance minitoat is ready to order at politicon.com slash merch. Go there to |
| 0:30.7 | get yours now. They look great. We've seen people with them out in the wild. Get yours while you can. |
| 0:36.1 | It is a hot item. Even our fashionista Kim says it is the item of the fashion season. So get your resistance. Sisters in Law mini tote right away. Today we will be discussing a number of important topics. Donald Trump's new plane, the Supreme Court's arguments in the |
| 0:56.8 | birthright citizenship case, and some new roles at the Department of Justice for Eagle Ed |
| 1:03.0 | Martin. Well, before we get started, I did want to ask each of you a very important question. |
| 1:08.5 | I am wondering, what is the sound tone that you use on your alarm |
| 1:14.9 | clock to wake you up every morning? Now, I realize for Jill, that probably assumes facts, |
| 1:18.9 | not in evidence because Jill wakes up at about noon every day, so she probably just pops right out |
| 1:23.8 | of bed at that time. But I've been using the same one for a long time. It's the one called |
| 1:28.2 | By the Seaside. Do you know this one? I do. I used to use that one. |
| 1:38.2 | So I really like it because it's a little bit goofy sounding, so it always makes me chuckle, |
| 1:42.1 | which is a good way to get up in the morning, right? Because my son has one that's like, you know, the Blair, bha-me-me-me-me-b. But I do find that if I use the |
| 1:49.4 | same one for a long time, I start to tire of it, and then I hear it and I kind of dread it. |
| 1:54.0 | Like for a long time, my husband used a song by 10,000 maniacs that I used to love. I know I hate because I think of it as the wake-up |
| 2:01.5 | song. So I'm looking for a new sound. What do you guys use? So, Barb, I have changed mine several |
| 2:08.6 | times, but my current one is called strum, and it sounds like this. I love banjo and I used to use the sound from deliverance, which used to upset so many people |
| 2:26.3 | that I had to get rid of that. |
| 2:28.3 | But I also have used blues and a piano one that I love a lot, because I do change them, because otherwise |
| 2:34.7 | you do get bored with them. But I have also discovered something, which is that I am now starting |
| 2:39.5 | to wake up 15 to 30 minutes before the alarm goes off. So I don't, morning, glory. I don't, well, |
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